The more we learned about Dr. Ford ...

The more it points to the inevitable conclusion that she’s either crazy at worst, or delusional at best.  I don’t believe she’s lying – that would require her to know what she’s saying is untrue. I’m not saying that; I think she really believes her story.

However, just because she believes it doesn’t make it true.

“True” to her, perhaps. But not objectively true.   

Nobody can corroborate her original story.  It’s becoming clear that she’s now backfilling parts of that story. Once again, none of her more recent revelations have been corroborated.  What’s actually happened is the gulf between her testimony and verified reality has widened. 

In Ford’s defense, many believed it’s possible something traumatic may have actually happened to her when she was 15, but perhaps not by Kavanaugh. I was one of those. I didn’t want to believe she made up everything, because that would mean she was a calculating liar or crazy.  

Then I saw her testify. 

A calculating liar would have been more focused. She was all over the place and couldn’t stick to what she said were her “details,” or even explain the inconsistencies in her prior statements. Her supporters will defend her by saying she was terrified, but she didn’t seem terrified to me. If anything, she was smiling and friendly.

And, to be kind, ditzy. At times, incoherent. To me, she wasn’t in the least bit credible given what she alleged and the complete lack of evidence. Sympathetic maybe; believable, not at all.    

After seeing her performance, I wondered why nobody ever asked for a competency hearing on Ford, which seemed warranted.  Or at the least probed how she suddenly remembered – in 2012 – what she now claims happened. It all came out, according to her, in a couple’s therapy session then.  How?  Was it a spontaneous epiphany?  Was she “guided” by the therapist to “recover” the cause of all her problems?

Nobody had the guts to ask.

Everybody was afraid to appear to be attacking her.  She had the armor of a “victim of sexual assault.” She was to be believed, no matter what.  All women were to be believed.   

Even now, nobody has the guts to confront her with sworn testimony from others. 

And nobody is willing to raise the most obvious question: is she at best delusional? 

I think she is. Not her fault; she can’t help it.  But nothing she’s said makes sense.

It’s as if she had a dream – or an artificially induced “recovered memory” – in 2012 and decided: “Aha – that’s why I’m a basket case. That’s the cause of all my problems. It’s not my fault at all.”  Everything fell into place for her after that.  She’s fully invested in that answer. 

It’s disgraceful that the left and Democrats exposed her to public scrutiny for purely political purposes.  They had to know she was going to have her alternate reality challenged.  Perhaps they hoped she would present such a pathetic image no one would notice how flimsy her evidence was. 

She was no more than a sacrificial lamb, to appease their more extreme elements.

And an unwilling sacrificial lamb, at that.

They should be ashamed. But of course they won't be. They'll keep using her as a rallying point for the mid-terms and beyond.  

They've even promised that if they take the House they'll investigate her claims further and try to impeach now-Justice Kavanaugh.

The torture of Ford will continue. I'm truly sorry for her.