Your Saturday Alito Update

From this long and fairly informative piece from Fox News, it's clear that the Democrats are grasping for something -- anything! -- with which to tar Judge Alito.

Their Concerned Alumni of Princeton gambit appears to have fizzled; the name of their chief attack dog on that front has been removed from the witness list, it having become known that he once compared animals subjected to violence to Holocaust victims. And, as the piece notes, White House aides are hinting that Alito, who was a member of ROTC during his college years, may have joined the group in an era when ROTC's right to remain on campus was being threatened. This was, in fact, a realistic fear (you'll recall that Harvard, for example, actually kicked ROTC out).

For the moment, it sounds like the same old tired left wing suspects are making the same old tired left-wing charges. Any conservative is, by definition in their book, racist and sexist.

Well, I'm ready for the hearings to start come Monday morning. And Alito has Democrats and colleagues ready to testify to his intellect, fair-mindedness and integrity. Is there anyone outside the loony left who's ready to testify to the opposite?