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This is definitely one of more annoying things the Dems have been doing, acting surprised, offended, and concerned that a guy drank a lot of beer in college. In a vacuum, that means zero, and they know that.
Partisan politics. Yuck.
Haven't seen or heard anyone "act surprised, offended, concerned that a guy drank a lot of beer in college" --- haven't even seen anyone bring up that at the time the Maryland drinking age was 21 and therefore he was illegal.
What I have heard is questioning on what he did while drunk, and his history of drinking to the excessive point of puking, passing out, etc.
The drinking age in MD was 18 when Brett drank beer as a senior. I am not going to clutch my pearls that teenagers drank beer. The fiction about puking and passing out is Dem Smear Spin. It's rather beneath you to indulge it.
NNnnnnope.
>> (BOSTON) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has repeatedly said that he was legally allowed to consume beer as a prep school senior in Maryland. In fact, he was never legal in high school because the state’s drinking age increased to 21 at the end of his junior year, while he was still 17.
Kavanaugh’s drinking has come under intense scrutiny after California professor Christine Blasey Ford alleged that a heavily intoxicated Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while they were both teenagers at a Maryland house party during the summer of 1982.
The legal age in that state was raised to 21 on July 1, 1982; Kavanaugh did not turn 18 until Feb. 12, 1983. << --- Linkie
The point there was, I haven't heard anyone in the "Dems" quoted in the post, even bring that up.
I can see where it was confusing as some teenagers were grandfathered in and could still drink at 18. In any case, I don't care if teenagers drank some beer. I drank beer when I was a teenager. I never blacked out, or puked, or raped anyone.
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Grandfathered Teen-agers
Yeah don't think so. Cool tactic, linking a page that requires a subscription.
It's from WAPO. I don't have a subscription to WAPO - I just clicked on the footnote on Wikipedia. Here try it for yourself. Footnote 45 for Maryland 1982.
U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state - Wikipedia