This is like a combo of Bork and Thomas at the moment. The latter for the sexual nature bringing his nomination into question, the former because of Kavanaugh's background as a "dirty tricks" member of the GOP attacking the Clintons as part of Starr's investigations and trying to link Hillary Clinton to Vince Foster's suicide, and that he might not get voted in after all is said and done.
I mean, Harriet Miers was poorly vetted by Bush 43, but she withdrew her own nomination before going to a hearing, unlike Kavanaugh, who was hoping Grassley and Co. could ramrod him through before anyone knew any better about him being a drunken attempted rapist.
Man, I don't know if there's a prosecutor with the guts to try a 25 year old attempted rape case under these circumstances. Most don't have the guts to even do it if it happened two days ago under these sorts of circumstances.