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Brett Kavanaugh is Eminently Qualified to Serve on the Supreme Court
The one-week delay in Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote in the Senate that was engineered by outgoing Arizona Senator Jeff Flake is already producing results that Democrats in the Senate were hoping for.
Charles ‘Chad’ Ludington, a faculty member at North Carolina State University and a Kavanaugh classmate at Yale, has stepped forward to say that Kavanaugh drank too much in college and became violent when he drank.
I want to say a few things about Ludington, but before I do, I want to lay the groundwork for the brouhaha that is unfolding in the Senate.
Flake says if FBI investigation finds Kavanaugh lied, nomination is over
Sens. Jeff Flake and Chris Coons said in an interview that aired Sunday that if the FBI investigation into sexual assault and misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh finds that the judge lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his testimony on Thursday, his nomination likely would not move forward.
“If Kavanaugh is shown to have lied to the committee, nomination’s over?” Scott Pelley of CBS’s “60 Minutes” asked Flake, an Arizona Republican, and Coons, a Delaware Democrat, who are friends.
“Oh yes,” Flake said, nodding.
Coons added, “I would think so.”
About Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake is a typical establishment Republican. The difference between an establishment Republican and an establishment Democrat is insignificant. They are like two peas in a pod.
Senators like Jeff Flake are the reason why our nation’s problems have not been solved. He’s a talker, not a doer. He’s a go-along, get-along guy. Pardon my French, but Jeff Flake is a bullshitter.
Flake is not running for reelection because he knows that he can’t win. The people of Arizona have had as much of Jeff Flake as they can stand. It will be a good day for the Senate, for Arizona, and for the United States when Flake surrenders his seat.
GOP Officials Lay Devastating Haymaker on Flake Over Kavanaugh Debacle
“He’s a pompous a– who has lost his f—ing mind,” one source told the Daily Wire.
“He betrayed the Republican Party and went full-Democrat,” the anonymous official continued.
“He did not consider how his actions will affect the America that his grandchildren will grow up in and whether they will have the same freedoms that we have today.”
Flake fancies the notion that he could become president one day. He’s deluded or worse. He’s as reliable as a twig.
Kavanaugh was ‘heavy drinker,’ ‘often belligerent’ at Yale, NC State professor says
RALEIGH—Charles ‘Chad’ Ludington and Brett Kavanaugh were classmates at Yale. They socialized together, Ludington says.
Now Kavanaugh is a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, under fire over accusations of sexual misconduct, including sexual assault allegations. The FBI is investigating, after dramatic testimony by Kavanaugh and accuser Christine Blasey Ford before a U.S. Senate committee led to demands that more be done to dig into the claims.
At the Senate hearing, Kavanaugh denied ever having had so much to drink that he blacked out.
Ludington is an associate professor of history at N.C. State University. On Sunday, he issued a statement about Kavanaugh in which he referred to the judge as “a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker,” in college. He said he felt it was his “civic duty” to tell people about his experience drinking with Kavanaugh.
“Belligerent and aggressive”: Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate says he was heavy drinker
WASHINGTON—In a statement released Sunday, a Yale classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh‘s said he is “deeply troubled by what has been a blatant mischaracterization by Brett himself of his drinking at Yale.” Charles “Chad” Ludington, who now teaches at North Carolina State University, said he was friend of Kavanaugh’s at Yale and that Kavanaugh was “a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker.”
“On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer. When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive,” Ludington said. While saying that youthful drinking should not condemn a person for life, Ludington said he was concerned about Kavanaugh’s statements under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“I have direct and repeated knowledge about his drinking and his disposition while drunk. And I do believe that Brett’s actions as a 53-year-old federal judge matter,” Ludington said. “If he lied about his past actions on national television, and more especially while speaking under oath in front of the United States Senate, I believe those lies should have consequences. It is truth that is at stake, and I believe that the ability to speak the truth, even when it does not reflect well upon oneself, is a paramount quality we seek in our nation’s most powerful judges.”
Ludington also wrote about an occasion he and Kavanaugh socialized where it allegedly landed a mutual friend in jail.
“On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi- hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail,” Ludington said.
Charles ‘Chad’ Ludington’s Biography
Charles Ludington received his undergraduate history degree from Yale University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. He has published essays on the Huguenot diaspora in Ireland, British and Irish political thought in the late-Stuart era, and the history of wine consumption in Britain from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. His first book, The Politics of Wine in Britain: A New Cultural History (2013, paperback 2016), used wine consumption as a window onto English, Scottish, and British political culture from Cromwell to Queen Victoria. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London in 2014. Since earning his doctorate in 2003, Ludington has taught Early Modern and Modern British history, European history, European intellectual history, and food history at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. He has won three teaching awards, including lecturer of the year in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University, where he was made a Teaching Associate Professor of History in 2013. From 2015-17, Ludington has been a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at University College Cork and Universite de Bordeaux-Michel Montaigne. He is investigating the role of Irish merchants in the development of Bordeaux wine into a luxury product during the period 1700-1855.
Charles ‘Chad’ Ludington’s Vita
- Columbia University, Ph. D., History, October 2003
- Columbia University, M. Phil., History, May 1997
- Columbia University, M. A., History, May 1995
- Yale University, B. A., History, May 1987
About Charles ‘Chad’ Ludington
Ludington is an academic, and not a very good one. I’m not tooting my own horn, but I have to tell you some things about myself so you will understand that I know how to evaluate university faculty.
I joined the University of Virginia faculty as an assistant professor in August 1979. In 3 years, I was promoted to associate professor and tenured. The normal time from assistant professor to associate professor is 7 years.
In 1987, I was promoted to full professor. In 1992, I was promoted to chaired professor. In 2004, I retired from UVA.
Across the nation, a small percentage of university faculty are promoted to full professor. A very small percentage of university faulty are promoted to chaired professor. Chaired professors are like generals in the Army or admirals in the Navy.
Ludington joined the faculty at NC State University in 2004, the same year I retired from UVA. That was 14 years ago. By the time I had been with UVA for 14 years, I was a chaired professor. I had also been associate dean, area coordinator (department chair), Policy Advisor to the Governor of Virginia, director of many programs, and chair of every major committee in my school.
According to news articles on Ludington, today he’s an “associate professor” at NC State, but if you look at the NC State website, you will see that he is a “teaching associate professor”, not an associate professor. Teaching associate professor is like an adjunct faculty member, a part-timer.
Universities come up with odd titles, things like “teaching associate professor”, to keep faculty who are good enough teachers, but they don’t cut the academic mustard. Saying that those faculty are the low men on the academic totem pole is an understatement.
Since he joined the NC State faculty in 2004, Ludington has published 3 books. Since I retired from UVA in 2004, I have published 9 books. Again, I’m not tooting my own horn. I’m just presenting facts.
In academia books matter. So do articles, but not as much. Being kind, Ludington’s academic performance has been extremely modest.
I evaluated faculty like Ludington for 25 years. Most of that time, I was a senior faculty member. Faculty like Ludington enjoy the freedom that an academic lifestyle provides, but they don’t enjoy working.
Research and writing require a lot of mental work and discipline. Teaching doesn’t require nearly as much effort. Real academics know that. Ludington is not a real academic. That’s what his vita shows, and that’s why he is a “teaching associate professor” after 14 years at NC State.
I’m familiar with the work that academics do, and I know how much effort is required to produce SnyderTalk. Compared to SnyderTalk, classroom teaching is a piece of cake. I’ve been publishing SnyderTalk since 2009. I consider SnyderTalk to be teaching. It’s read by people all over the world. I saw nothing on Ludington’s vita that resembles SnyderTalk.
The bottom line: Ludington isn’t even a mediocre academic. He’s smart but lazy. I think he’s probably jealous of Brett Kavanaugh, too.
It pays to look under the hood and kick the tires.
Brett Kavanaugh Compared with Charles Ludington
Brett Kavanaugh and Chad Ludington were classmates at Yale. They are about the same age.
Ludington is barely getting by in academia. Kavanaugh is about to reach the pinnacle in his profession.
Do you think Ludington is envious of Kavanaugh? Do you think the green-eyed monster has a grip on him? I do.
I couldn’t confirm that Ludington is a Democrat, but I’ll bet he is. I would be shocked if he isn’t.
Ludington has never gotten much attention for his academic accomplishments, but he’s getting lots of attention for trying to tear down Brett Kavanaugh. At this moment, in Raleigh, North Carolina Democrat Party circles, Ludington is a hero. Probably for the first time in his career, he’s basking in the glory, and his crowning achievement is trying to tear down a man who has accomplished a lot.
It’s easier to tear down than it is to build. Kavanaugh has built an impressive career. Ludington is hanging on in his profession. His 15 minutes of fame will be over soon, and Brett Kavanaugh will be a Supreme Court Justice for decades to come.
Ludington will be able to tell his grandchildren that he tried to sabotage a Supreme Court nominee. If I were Ludington, I would try to keep that a secret.
Jeff Flake and Democrats are Disingenuous
Jeff Flake made a deal with Senate Democrats hoping that something would come up that would enable him to vote “no” on Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court. His Democrat buddies love him for it. They think he’s a hero. To win their acclaim, he betrayed Senate Republicans, the people of Arizona, and the people of the United States.
Democrats are playing a game of delay and defeat. They’ve been playing that game since President Trump nominated Kavanaugh. That’s why the Christine Blasey Ford accusation didn’t come out until after the Judiciary Committee hearing ended. The one-week delay that Flake handed them will lead to more so-called “reasons” for more delays and nothing more.
Jeff Flake and Senate Democrats are disingenuous. They don’t want evidence. They want accusations. They think that’s all they need to stop Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court. Every senator knows it. Ordinary Americans are just learning how corrupt they are, especially Democrat senators.
There is No Evidence of Wrongdoing
If there was evidence of wrongdoing on Brett Kavanaugh’s part during his illustrious career, it would have come out long before now. He has been investigated many times. Each time, he has come out smelling like a rose.
Kavanaugh came out smelling like a rose this time, too. The last-minute allegations against him without corroborating evidence to support them are a last-ditch effort to stop his appointment to the Supreme Court. It’s as simple as that.
Chad Ludington is a pawn in the game. So is Christine Blasey Ford. So are many others, and no one has produced anything that even resembles evidence of wrongdoing on Kavanaugh’s part.
Over the next few days, we may see more allegations, but I’ll bet we won’t see any evidence. There is a huge difference between allegations and evidence.
Evidence is persuasive. Allegations are not. All of the evidence shows that Brett Kavanaugh is eminently qualified to serve on the Supreme Court.
Breaking News: Evidence doesn’t support claims against Kavanaugh, Judiciary Committee questioner says
In a memo, which was sent to all Republican senators and was obtained Sunday night by NBC News, Rachel Mitchell, the deputy county attorney in charge of the Special Victims Division in Maricopa County, Arizona, said her “bottom line” was that “a ‘he said, she said’ case is incredibly difficult to prove.”
“But this case is even weaker than that,” Mitchell wrote. “Dr. Ford identified other witnesses to the event, and those witnesses either refuted her allegations or failed to corroborate them.”
“I do not think that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence before the committee,” she wrote.
An investigation of Christine Blasey Ford is called for. Too many things in her story don’t add up. See “Ford deserves to be heard. She deserves to go to jail if she lies.” Referring her allegations to the FBI for a thorough investigation is the right course of action because Ford’s allegations are void of substance.
About Drinking Beer
I know that Brett Kavanaugh likes beer. He said so.
From time to time, he may have had a few too many beers. I’ve done that on occasion, too. That’s not a disqualifier.
Winston Churchill drank a lot. He drank whiskey. He smoked too much, too, but he was a great prime minister. He served England well when his country needed him.
Adolf Hitler didn’t drink or smoke. I’ll leave it at that.
Yahweh isn’t Looking for Perfect
President Trump is Yahweh’s man for a time like this. He’s not perfect.
Brett Kavanaugh is President Trump’s choice for the Supreme Court. He’s not perfect, either.
Yahweh isn’t looking for perfect. There is a reason for that. No one is perfect.
Consider Isaiah. He wasn’t perfect. When Isaiah saw Yahweh, all he could say was “Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh Sabaoth.” (Isaiah 6: 5)
A few verses later, Isaiah said, “Then I heard the voice of Yahweh, saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’” (Isaiah 6: 8)
Yahweh did send Isaiah despite his imperfections, and he became a great prophet.
Donald Trump is a great president and Brett Kavanaugh will be a great Supreme Court Justice. Perfection is not required. Faithfulness and obedience are.
Jeff Flake is a Republican, but he Acts like a Democrat
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
