“It’s nice to see these more establishment conservative outlets - the ones that were so quick to abandon Roy Moore - willing to fight.”
These outlets encouraged this by abandoning Moore.
I don’t think that the abortion-loving left needed its Moore victory to put the wind in its sails for this one. They likely would have played it the same way regardless of Moore. This is a very much rerun of Bork and Thomas, with different allegations, characters, etc, but the same basic playbook. Whenever an appointment threatens to tip the balance against Roe v Wade, the left goes nuclear. It is total war, and they will not yield. They will employ any and every weapon at their disposal. Truth be damned. Decency be damned