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The Left hasn’t given up on smearing Justice Brett Kavanaugh

By Thomas Jipping

Published December 27, 2018 5:41pm ET

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The Left hasn’t given up on smearing Justice Brett Kavanaugh — A police officer guards the front steps of the Supreme Court in Washington as activists protest, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice. | (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Campaigning for Barry Goldwater days before the 1964 presidential election, former President Ronald Reagan said that “the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” Even so, liberals are masters of snatching victory out of the jaws of defeat.

Case in point, the Left tried three strategies to derail the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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