They knew it, they just thought it would backfire on them if they focused on his "youthful indiscretions." Also Dems are under the impression that no one would understand what was wrong with it. For example, Alan Greenspan skated through his confirmations without a single question about his lifetime devotion to Ayn Rand's Objectivist ("Altruism is evil") humbug. If he spent a college year as a member of the Socialist Workers Party, things might have been different.
Wtf! How do they not know this shit when they’re holding the hearings?
They knew it, they just thought it would backfire on them if they focused on his "youthful indiscretions." Also Dems are under the impression that no one would understand what was wrong with it. For example, Alan Greenspan skated through his confirmations without a single question about his lifetime devotion to Ayn Rand's Objectivist ("Altruism is evil") humbug. If he spent a college year as a member of the Socialist Workers Party, things might have been different.