I believe Bork would have been a fanastic appointment. But the spaghetti-spined Republicans let the Dems demagogue him. And with a Democratic president, those same Republicans rubber-stamp the likes of Bader-Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor.
They say Orrin Grant Hatch saved he Clarence Thomas nomination; others say Rick Santorum’s friend Arlen Specter did. But Hatch hasn’t done diddly UT squat since then.