Washington (CNN) Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh needs two things to be true in order for his past acknowledged drinking to be non-problematic as it relates to the allegations of sexual assault and sexually inappropriate behavior leveled at him by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez:

1) He drank regularly in high school and college, at times to excess.

2) None of those times -- NONE -- did he ever forget anything he had said or done. Not. Once.

This is a position of necessity for Kavanaugh. Given what we know about his past -- and eyewitness testimony from his friends and acquaintances -- it would be impossible for him to pretend he never drank. And so, he has leaned into the idea; "I like beer," he repeated ad nauseam during his testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday.

And/But: Because of the accusations leveled by Ford and Ramirez -- among others -- Kavanaugh simply cannot open the door even a teeny tiny little bit to the idea that he may not remember every single thing he said or did during and after he drank. If he did, then the next obvious question would be: "Then how can you say for certain this assault didn't happen during one of those times?" And Kavanaugh would have no answer. And his nomination would be DOA.