She probably was drunk, but that provides nothing for your narrative. I've had probably hundreds of instances of being somewhere I don't remember going to where I also don't remember leaving... but if anything jarring happened in between, I do remember. I remember a friend of a friend throwing an open McDonald's ranch cup at me when we were in the car. I have no idea where we had been prior to that and I don't remember going to McDonald's or what I got if I got something there. I don't remember the rest of the night after that. I remember the ranch cup. I remember it getting on my leather jacket. I remember him and the others in the car laughing and I was like "The f***, dude? Don't get sauce on my jacket" but not being angry per se and just wiping it off with napkins.
That's not jarring even. That's just an unexpected detail of a night that occurred during extended intoxication.
Those moments stand out. They are the ones where you have the clarity passing through the eye of a storm and things go from comfortable blur to unsettlingly real. Something like... being almost raped and fearing for your life would epitomize the memory-sparking trauma-induced adrenaline "sobering up" instances.
You want to pounce on the concept of her quite possibly or even probably being drunk as a means to discredit her, but the angle you're playing hurts you and makes you appear to have a strong lack of knowledge on the subject of which you speak.
I'm quite aware of where I'm getting at. If she was drunk at this party, and she will be asked this question, and she will have to answer honestly, her credibility will take a huge hit. If she said she was heavily intoxicated, it will throw her entire testimony into doubt. Who's to say there wasn't a case of mistaken identity? I mean she may have been drunk before she got there and was wasted when she left.
The reality is that she's afraid of these questions will be asked. If she said she wasn't intoxicated, and she forget all the key details, her testimony becomes unreliable. If she said she was intoxicated (at age 15) before and after the party, and she forgot the key details, her testimony becomes reliable.
She's not in a good position no matter how she answers. Maybe someone did tried to take advantage of her, and maybe that person wasn't Kavanaugh. Maybe she had a crush on Kavanaugh and imagined all of this in her drunken state, since she can't even remember the day it happened.
Mistaken identity might be plausible, the rest sounds a bit iffy really...
That's why she needs to go to DC and tell her side of the story. The fact that she said she doesn't remember how she got there or how she got home is a huge hole in her story.
Someone should have come forward by now and said "Yes, I drove her there and I drove her home". And no one has come forward... no friend, no family, nobody. Strange, don't you think? Maybe she wasn't drunk... maybe she was lying. ---