When a charge of this nature is lodged there should be two things, one, evidence or at least something that resembles evidence. Two, it should not lay dormant for 20 years and then only surface when the man is about to become a supreme court justice.

Hill was lambasted because it looked to everyone that she was a plant to discredit the judge. There is some chance, remote as it seems that she was not lying through her teeth, but when you come out of the woodwork like she did you might expect other to fight back.