Ramesh Ponnuru: What we didn’t learn from the Kavanaugh hearing

Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in Washington. Her attorney's Debra Katz and Michael Bromwich watch. (Win McNamee/Pool Image via AP) We didn't learn much from the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing Thursday. The evidence about whether Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Professor Christine Blasey Ford when they were teenagers in the early 1980s remains what it was beforehand. The hearings only reinforced some things we already knew.

First: Ford's accusation is the most serious of the ones against the judge. The Democrats mostly stayed away from The New Yorker magazine's rumor-mongering concerning Deborah Ramirez - who…