He said things nobody else wanted to say. It WAS revenge of the Clintons, for Merrick Garland, the 2016 election, etc.
Just as Kennedy stopping Robert Bork (among other reasons) was comeuppance for his role in firing Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor.
Revenge is par for the course with democrats, and their fellow travelers like Jeff Flake (who is instituting a little revenge for Trump’s treatment of him, and also the conservatives of Arizona, who denied him another term).
Kavanaugh has a first class temperament when it comes to his job, the law, and they all know it.
Remember when Lindsay Graham questioned Kavanaugh re: military tribunals, and his cogent answers?
The dems are scared stiff about this - and they can’t mention that spectre because their ‘pillars of democratic party elite’ might be finding themselves before those tribunals after Jan. 1, 2019..