Maybe he went to confession to a priest. Isn't that what Catholics do? So maybe now he thinks he's forgiven.
If he did confess it to a priest and was truly sorry for it, I'd say he would be forgiven. The priest is there to help people sort things out so they don't fool themselves into thinking they can be forgiven without regretting sins. If he was forgiven, he'd have no reason to deny it.
He sounds more like a typical lying politician with things in common with men like Trump and Clinton and some others. He'll fit right in with the Trump administration. His arrogance and thinking he's above the law speaks volumes.
I did not care that much about Bill Clinton's sex life. What he did in the privacy of whatever rooms he had sex in didn't interest me that much. I did care however when he attacked women, called one a liar. I think he sued her; and then when he got to court he lied under oath. He was convicted of perjury. Such a man obviously thinks he's "above the law." The Democrats wanted to defend him, and they were willing to ignore this undermining of the justice system. What he did in private is mostly his business; but when he undermined the justice system, he was attacking every American who should be able to rely on it for fair verdicts. Such a man should not be President. His contempt for women and his willingness to abuse the legal system showed us what kind of character he had.
I heard quite a bit of the hearing. The woman who testified was low-key without a lot of unnecessary drama, keeping to her story -- her version of the "facts." She struck me as honest.
When Kavanaugh got up there, he got all dramatic. He launched into a wild conspiracy theory. I was struck by how lacking he was in the "judicial temperament" which judges ought to have where they can consider the facts of a case calmly and without prejudice. The woman acted more qualified to be a judge than he did as did many of the Senators. Someone given to throwing tantrums the way he did should not be a judge.
I was also struck by how he interrupted several of the women asking questions. They were doing their jobs as Senators on the committee. They were supposed to ask questions and he was supposed to answer them. He'd interrupt them, he'd ask them irrelevant questions, and sometimes he gave irrelevant answers. Again this showed me how unqualified he was to be a judge. Judges should show respect for due process and procedures. He did not. He seemed to be different interacting with the women than the men, and I had to think he hated being "grilled" by women. They were doing their jobs! Who cares if they were men or women? He seemed to.
He tried to paint himself as a victim and he talked about how his family had been made victims; but he had his wife sitting behind him. He had her on Fox News with him too. She looked very depressed. I had to ask why he dragged her along with him if he was so concerned about her being victimized.
He came across to me as a rich white kid brought up in a privileged household; and he was not used to be challenged on anything. For him, having women say things about him was the "end of the world." Maybe he should be glad he wasn't born in some poor country, or born as a member of a minority that truly had to struggle to get by. People are starving, dying for lack of proper medical care, being killed in wars, and suffering a lot more than he ever did -- but all he could see was his own problems which he exaggerated as if they were the worst thing that ever happened to anyone.
Oh, by the way, the prep school he went to was a Jesuit school; and the magazine of the Jesuit order, which had backed him, has now backtracked. I'd say they were correct to do so since Kavanaugh is not a good example of a good Catholic.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kavanaugh-confirmation-america-magazine-jesuit-urges-nomination-withdrawal-2018-09-28/ROME — The magazine of the Jesuit religious order in the United States has publicly withdrawn its endorsement of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court justice following testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the Jesuit-educated Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexually assaulting her decades ago.
In an editorial posted late Thursday, America magazine said it had no special insight into whether Kavanaugh or Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth. But it said that the nomination was no longer in the interests of the country and "should be withdrawn."
"If Senate Republicans proceed with his nomination, they will be prioritizing policy aims over a woman's report of an assault," the editors wrote. "Were he to be confirmed without this allegation being firmly disproved, it would hang over his future decisions on the Supreme Court for decades and further divide the country."
The reversal is significant given Kavanaugh has repeatedly cited his Catholic faith and Jesuit education in defending himself against Ford's accusations. In his opening statement Thursday, Kavanaugh twice referenced his years as a student at the Jesuit-run Georgetown Prep school in Maryland. Ford has accused a drunken Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a house party in the summer of 1982, when he was a student at the school. Kavanaugh has vigorously denied her claims.I know he lied about the legal age for drinking; and that speaks volumes since people who will lie about one thing will usually lie about other things. If he can't admit drinking illegally as a minor (which seems rather unimportant to me), I would expect him to lie about more serious things. The man is a nutcase in my opinion, unable to admit to doing anything wrong in the past.
If you saw any of it, you saw the bizarre facial expressions. He was obviously feeling very stressed out. He was screwing his face around and sticking his tongue into his cheek. He does not operate well under stress. His talk about wanting to be "number 1" in his class and "captain" of some sports team also struck me as weird. Does he feel inadequate as a male or something that he has to "prove" how great he is? And what if he was "number 1" and "captain" the way he talked about? So what? He could still be a creep. I think there is something wrong in the way boys are brought up if they think that way. His priorities were messed up in my opinion. A good Catholic would not assert that his top priority in life was being number 1.