A New Attack on Alito?

Via Drudge:

Senate Democrats intend to zero in on Alito’s alleged enthusiastic
membership to an organization, they will charge, that was sexist and racist!
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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.
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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.”

On the surface, and with a potential assist from the MSM, this is not a bad tactic, namely, guilt (or in this case, smear) by association. Hopefully, GOP Senators will be ready to respond to this move.

Maybe the Democrats will bring in Sen. Robert Byrd (D-KKK) to question Judge Alito on his membership in a "racist" group. In fact, maybe Republicans should insist on it.

This smear is unlikely to stop Alito, but the GOP needs to attack any smear of this type head on rather than assume that the facts speak for themselves.