Billmon: Borking Does Not Equal Sliming

If what Chris Matthews said tonight is even remotely true, then the DNC needs to leave the Borking to people who actually know what the word means:

"I'm sitting here holding in my hands a disgusting document, put out not for attribution. The Democrats are circulating it. It's a complaint sheet against Judge Alito's nomination. The first thing they nail is he failed to win a mob conviction in 1988. They nail him on not putting italian mobsters in jail. Why would they bring this up? This is either a very bad coincidence or very bad politics. Either way it will hurt them. This document, not abortion rights, not civil rights but that he failed to nail some mobsters in 1988. This is the top of their list. Amazingly bad politics."

The document in question is, in most respects, a run-of-the-mill hit job on Scalito's judicial record. If anything, I don't think it punches hard enough when it comes to describing Lil' Nino's wing-nut jurisprudence. (The writing is also atrocious.)