THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

Or else they have a mortal lock on his balls. His defense of Boofin' Brett Kavanaugh is so impassioned you would think he was defending his boyfriend.

Sen. Lindsey Graham has made it his mission to aggressively, eagerly defend Brett Kavanaugh at all costs.

As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to hear testimony from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and one of his accusers Thursday, the South Carolina Republican — a senior member of the panel— has crafted a role as a full-throated defender of the embattled D.C. Circuit Court judge.

“We’re not gonna let a thousand accusations stop” the process, Graham said Wednesday. “(Democrats have) said publicly they want to delay this and get the majority back and hold a seat open.”

He was indignant with reporters who questioned him about how and why he was so convinced Kavanaugh was innocent.

Of Christine Blasey Ford, who is alleging Kavanaugh attempted to rape her at a high school party in 1982, Graham said, “You can’t tell me the time. You can’t tell me the location. And the people you tell me were at the party, they say it didn’t happen. So what am I supposed to do? You couldn’t get a warrant based on that.”

Graham dismissed Deborah Ramirez, who told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party while at Yale, because Ramirez didn’t immediately want to share her account with the Judiciary Committee.

He was the most enraged about the accusations laid out in the latest allegation, a sworn declaration from Julie Swetnick that Kavanaugh was part of a group of high school boys who would drug young girls at parties in order to take advantage of them.

“I’m saying if you were going to parties where women are raped for a two-year period, you have an obligation to go tell the cops. I really believe that,” said Graham. “And the fact that you didn’t tell the cops and you don’t mention it for 36 years and you don’t mention it before two days before the hearing is very suspicious for me.”

When pressed, he said “I don’t know” if Swetnick was lying.

By maintaining his support for Kavanaugh even before he hears from Ford, Graham is doing more than just standing up for his party’s Supreme Court nominee.

He is wading into a highly emotional debate in the thick of the #metoo movement, where defending Kavanaugh’s integrity also means casting aspersions on three women who insist they were either victims of, or witness to, Kavanaugh engaging in acts of sexual violence more than three decades ago.

Graham is also echoing Republican talking points that characterize Democrats as engaging in a smear campaign to keep Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court, which in turn suggest Kavanaugh’s accusers are not credible.

“Y’all go do your homework about this last allegation, and (if) I were a true victim, the last person I would go to would be Michael Avenatti,” Graham said of Swetnick’s lawyer, a Democrat who also represents the adult film actress accusing President Donald Trump of offering hush money during the 2016 campaign to cover up an affair.

Asked what he would say to Democrats who are accusing him and members of his party as insensitive to women with their rhetoric, Graham shot back that “people who are criticizing us are hypocrites.”

Graham is showing more zeal for protecting his new BFF Boofin' Brett than he has shown for any GOP policy in the past. Even though he admits he has no idea if any of the multiple accusers are lying. How dare they attack his latest sweetie!