[bigbob]

I’m with you. She’s perhaps the best originalist, the most like Scalia, and the left is going to be a little more restrained about a woman.

[OrangeHoof]

...and the left is going to be a little more restrained about a woman.

Just like they were about Sarah Palin and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Not likely.

When the stakes are high enough, the Left has no problem tossing out the b-word or even the c-word to smear a good conservative woman.

[irishjuggler]

Not sure that the left is capable of exercising restraint, but attacking and demonizing an attractive, intelligent mother of 7 is unlikely to sit well with many in the general public. Barrett is going to come across as a very likable, admirable woman, and the mother-of-7 thing is just so unique these days that the left will be disoriented by it. Attacks on her will seem like attacks on motherhood itself.

They got away with demonizing Bork but in some ways he was a rather easy person for them to paint as some sort of weirdo. By all fair accounts, Bork was a brilliant jurist and and true gentleman. But I remember watching some of those hearings in '87, and Bork didn't come across as exactly from central casting. There he was with a scraggly beard and somewhat unruly hair expounding on obscure legal theories while the yokels on the Senate committee did their best to attack him. I might be misremembering, but I also have this memory of him smoking cigarettes during the hearing. It was a different era in '87, but it wasn't '47 either and he wasn't exactly image conscious.

[jimjohn]

DON’T COUNT ON IT.

It would not surprise me to see them find a look alike and do a porn video just to smear the woman, else they may try going after her physically. Remember this:

1. They hate conservatives.
2. They hate female conservatives worse.
3. They hate minority conservatives worse.
4. They hate female minority conservatives even more.
5. And if you are conservative, and fall into “grouped” category as outlined by the opposition, the hatred level for you increases by a factor of 10 for each group you represent.