Robert Bork is a brilliant man and a true conservative, but he is nearing eighty. Hardly a good choice for the Supreme Court at this point!!
I understand that and it is important to install some conservative that will be there for decades. It's just I'd love to have seen the dims looks had Bork been named.
You are right - Bork will never be nominated again. What worked against Bork was that he had a serious, gruff demeanor, and that superficially gave credibility to the Dem horror stories about him, made him seem sinister. Also, Bork tried to argue technical legal points with Specter et al, and the public couldn't handle that, it made Bork seem like a too-serious intellectual, the kind that many Americans are afraid of. Roberts, on the other hand, comes across as fairly likeable and his braininess isn't of the schizoid ennea Type 5 variety that spooks people.