This is nothing more or less than propaganda intended to create doubts in conservatives. A clever piece, it doesn't reveal its true essence readily. She may be honest in wanting the Dem icons like Kennedy to stop acting like fools. That is making the entire left movement vulnerable to their own tactic; guilt by association. She knows it is true in substance as well as inference (unlike their attempt to smear Alito) and she knows the game is lost for now.
It's a call to retreat for the purposes of saving resources and the hail Mary hope of confusing the opposition.
Bingo! Never forget one important fact: LIBERALS ALWAYS LIE!! It goes with the amoral irreligious territory they have staked out as their very own.
The author knows this one is lost for the Godless ones, so she is just doing the propaganda thing to try to throw a wrench in our works ...
Read it for amusement only ...