I would demand strict proof. I would demand that the FBI investigate it thoroughly, talk to everyone related to or potentially related to the incident. I would demand the FBI receive all relevant documentation of the event including therapy notes. I would be forthcoming about my activities related to the event (parties I remembered attending, behavior at those parties, behavior of others at those events). You bet I would demand that everything that would exonerate me be examined.
Let's play this the other way, @Phil. Put yourself in Ford's shoes. You've experienced a traumatic and frightening sexual assault by two boys who thought assaulting you was fun and funny. You were terrified during the assault, you can't breath from the weight of the body on top of you and the hand over your mouth, you believe yourself at risk of being accidently killed through suffocation. You have no idea during the assault how or when it will end, or if it will end with your rape or death.
Afterward you just want to put it behind you and pretend it didn't happen. But by stuffing the feelings associated with it, you just continue to experience them. Years later, when you hear the boy who was the principle perpetrator is now under consideration for the Supreme Court and you struggle with whether you should say anything, and what your coming forward might do to yourself and your family. You send a letter to your representative, thinking the information is now available and may result in a different person being selected for the Supreme Court. But it doesn't, and he's selected. Then your letter is leaked and people know who you are.
Your family gets death threats, you get intrusive visits by the press, and you have to move out of your home, so you agree expose yourself to talk about the most horrific thing that's happened to you. On national television. The President of the United States mentions your testimony is credible. Then the next thing you know, the President of the United States, your President, is in front of a crowd making fun of the most traumatic, and personal, event in your life. To cheering crowds he is mocking your pain and your trauma, and just like those boys who assaulted you, is laughing at you and belittling you like you are nothing - and some of your fellow citizens are cheering him on.
So. I don't know whether Kavanaugh is innocent or guilty and neither does anyone on this board; saying you do is blind partisanship. A moderator using the ability to pin a post that demonstrates that blind partisanship is an abuse of a moderator's privileges. I don't trust you, @Phil, to moderate impartially. I would be surprised if anyone on the left does now.