Let's try a little thought experiment. Once upon a time, Sam Alito was a member of the Princeton Communist Party, worked for Cesar Chavez, spent time as a staff attorney for the ACLU, NOW and NARAL and once wrote in an opinion that the Constitution does not contain a right to bear arms outside of a "well regulated militia."
When he gets to his confirmation hearings, he can't remember being a commie, claims he only worked for Chavez and NARAL to gain street cred with the left and doesn't know how he will vote if a second amendment case appears on the supreme court docket.
Now here's the hard part: what do you think the MSM's and the Republican wingnut response would be? Let it slide, take him at his word? Judge him competent and well dressed? And what about his wife's teary eyed exit from the hearings? Doesn't he deserve a lifetime seat on the court after those nasty, nasty Senators made his wifey poo cry? Doesn't he deserve a seat just for, well, sitting there for three days?
Or do you think we'd being seeing the smack down of all time in which he would have been Borked from here to the far side of Andromeda?
So I guess my real questions are: why are Democrats such incompetent pussies? and, Why do they always, always, always come to these gun fights armed with a rubber knife?