To be filed under words I never dreamed I’d be typing back in 2012: this Jennifer Rubin column will likely be the best thing you’ll read all day:

I’ll recollect Ford’s trembling voice acknowledging that she might be “annihilated” for her effort to spare the country from a grievously unfit justice. She got that right. https://t.co/qVBW3m9ZbN

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 4, 2018

Republicans, too, could win this fight for the swing Supreme Court seat, but they cannot bestow legitimacy upon Kavanaugh or erase their record of weaponized misogyny. Progressives will seek his recusal in every case of political significance. Every 5-4 decision in which Kavanaugh is the deciding vote will be denounced as illegitimate, the work of a partisan judge elevated to the court by nefarious means. The decision will be respected legally in the short term, but in the future, it will be argued, the decision should carry zero precedential weight. Those he once accused of participating in a left-wing cabal will seek to vacate cases they lose in which Kavanaugh was the deciding vote. In future cases, they will urge justices and lower court judges to downgrade the importance of these decisions, in effect treating them as unpublished opinions that should not impact future cases.

Read the whole thing - the great thing about genuine Never-Trump Republicans is they can give Dems successful tips from the fight-hard-and-dirty playbook.