Steve Cortes provides four reasons.
I offer a fifth: Barrett is of the female persuasion. Justice Bork was easy to bork: he was stern of visage and appeared mean to many. The borking of the sweet and amiable Barrett will make the Dems look bad and expose them for what they are: bent upon power by any means, and especially vicious toward blacks and females who will not toe the party line but dare to stray from the p.c. reservation.