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So I said Biden should apologize to Bork. Liberals are mocking me because the "smart" position is "duh Bork bad," but the Borking of Bork was an outrage and contributed to the f'd up politics of today. Bork was *immensely* qualified. You know who thought so? Joe Biden. 1/
Not long before Bork was nominated, Biden told the Philly Inquirer “Say the administration sends up Bork. I’d have to vote for him, and if the (liberal interest) groups tear me apart, that’s the medicine I’ll have to take.” 2/
Then when Reagan nominated Bork, Biden caved to those very same liberal interest groups. The Democrats demonized Bork. Ted Kennedy's "Bork's America" speech was a disgusting demagogic smear. 3/
Bork wasn't voted down because of the Nixon stuff as all of these sudden "experts" keep claiming. He was widely seen as one of the intellectual giants of the legal community right up until he was nominated for Scotus. Yes "revenge for Nixon" was part of liberal opposition.... 4/
But that wasn't it. Bork's nomination was killed because he was so qualified not because he wasn't. He was persuasive, conservative and enemy of the "living Constitution" and that made him a threat. That's why Democrats and Biden caved to activists. 5/
Warren Burger said that if the senate rejected Bork "then they shouldn't have confirmed me." wsj.com/articles/SB124… 6/
But they did reject Bork and decades of partisan asininity, tribalism and rage-politics ensued. The voting down of Bork didn't cause all of it, but it started it. And Biden should apologize for his cowardice and hackery at the time. fin.
