Word: bork
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...organizations promised to battle any nominee likely to provide the key vote that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion. Referring to the political onslaught by civil rights groups and liberal forces that derailed Ronald Reagan's effort to elevate Robert Bork to the high court in 1987, Democratic consultant Roger Craver predicted that "the Bork nomination will seem mild compared with the political mobilization and pressure that will be brought upon the Senate over this nomination...
Direct-mail fund raising also leads groups to create or exploit bogeymen, to personalize the issue. Ted Kennedy's dream may have died, but it lives on in the nightmares of thousands of conservative donors. Liberal causes have lost Ed Meese and Robert Bork, but are trying (a bit desperately) to make do with David Duke, the former Klansman in the Louisiana state legislature...