I don't doubt that Democrats are happy about Ford coming forward if it in someway can thwart Kavanaugh's confirmation, all sympathies for Dr. Ford aside, it's a political "win" in today's team sport politics. BUT a logical person cannot deduce that their desire to block Kavanaugh in way, shape or form takes away from Dr. Ford's credibility. For one, Dr. Ford reached out to her local representative with her allegations towards Kavanaugh when he was merely on the short list, prior to his nomination. In her testimony, she stated she did it at this time in the hopes that it would get to the White House so they would pick one of the other conservative judges, which obviously did not happen.
The whole notion that the Dems put Ford up to this to block Kavanaugh is such BS. If they did, then they have been planning this for six years.
Even if the Republicans block Kavanaugh's nomination (the Democrats do not have the votes to block anything, simple math), they can still shove Amy Coney Barrett onto the court before January and still have the same success in overturning Roe v. Wade, putting prayer back in school, etc. etc.