This is just sickening…

Democrats plan to destroy Alito.

Democrats hope to tie Alito to Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP).

Alito will testify that he joined CAP as a protest over Princeton policy that would not allow the ROTC on campus.

THE DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a Summer 1982 article from CAP’s PROSPECT magazine titled “Smearing The Class Of 1957” that key Senate Democrats believe could thwart his nomination!

In the article written by then PROSPECT editor Frederick Foote, Foote writes: “The facts show that, for whatever reasons, whites today are more intelligent than blacks.”

Senate Democrats expect excerpts like this written by other Princeton graduates will be enough to torpedo the Alito nomination.

One Democrat Hill staffer involved in their strategy declared, “Put a fork in Scalito. It doesn’t matter that Alito didn’t write it, it doesn’t matter that Alito wasn’t that active in the group, Foote wrote it in CAP’s magazine and we are going to make Alito own it.”

Frankly, I think if the Dems try this, Alito will eat them for lunch.

But that’s besides the point. This is downright indecent. Yes. Indecent. To try to destroy someone on something this flimsy, in the name of partisan politics is, finally, INDECENT.

And it hypocritically smacks of the sort of “McCarthyism” the Democrats are SUPPOSED to deplore. Think back to all of those stories you read about writers in the 1930’s, (and again in the 1950’s) who joined the Communist party because they wanted to impress a girl, or because they wanted a business contact, or simply because they just were attracted to its ideals – and had their careers ruined, unjustly, over those associations. We’ve been told for years that those people had been treated unjustly – that they were victims of an out-of-control ideology, remember? We were told that such victimization was a BAD thing, an ugly thing that weakened the very fabric of America and made a mockery of the Bill of Rights. Back when I was a Democrat, such stories were routinely held out as examples of “small-minded mob mentalities,” and fascist-leaning conformists. Now, suddenly, fascist tactics are acceptable? As long as they are politically expedient?

It’s suddenly okay to try to destroy someone on the basis of a membership into a non PC organization? Hey, that’s what happened to those early 2oth century communists – they belonged to a non PC organization, after all. And like I said…that was considered to be a BAD thing.

What rank, odious hypocrisy this is. If the Dems commit to persuing this course of action, they will have completed their journey into becoming mindless reactionaries, and I wonder if they will be able to find their way out of what they will then become.

The Dems are out of control. They need someone sensible, someone with SOME skills of statesmenship, SOME sense of proportion and decency to pull them away from this cliff. This may fly with DU and the KosKidz, but I don’t see ordinary, fair-minded Americans consenting to this.

And I am waiting, still waiting, for one – just one – influential journalist to speak up and say, “wait a second , this isn’t right…” even if he or she does it for the wrong reasons, if he or she only does it to protect the next Democrat president from having to endure this game-playing on every one of his court nominees – or to protect a lawyer friend who down the road might have to put up with this. I’m waiting to see one journalist actually have the guts to fall out of lockstep with the Democrats and speak up against this sort of thing.

But I’m sure that if I turn on the tv right now, I’ll see Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann and David Gregory and all the rest of them simply picking up the line and running with it.

This really has to stop. At some point, it has to stop. WHERE are the grown ups in the Democrat party?

UPDATE: Dujack has been pulled from the witness list, but that means nothing. This whole thing is still indecent. Ace has a good post on the whole story. And good Captain Ed links here and has more. Thanks, Ed, for the link.