After Judge Alito's impressive performance this week (and Justice Roberts' equally impressive performance last September), numerous commentators having been writing the epitaph for the Democrats' strategy of "Borking" conservative judicial appointees.  For example, in today's Opinion Journal, Daniel Henninger wrote:  "Borking was once a Democratic smear tactic.  This week —— amid intellectually exhausted and politically befuddled Democrats —— it became a laugh track."  Mr. Henninger credits this development to the founding of the Federalist Society and the nurturing of a generation of tough—minded conservative legal scholars.  I disagree.  Both Judge Bork and then—Judge Thomas (the two main examples of "Borking" discussed by Mr. Henninger in his article) were brilliant, accomplished jurists, no less so than Justice Roberts or Judge Alito.  Yet that did not stop the Democrats from attempting to destroy their...(Read Full Post)