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Bork (who had briefly been her teacher at Yale) as her “mentor and friend.” And a law professor acquainted with Miss Hill remarked that “I suspect she’s a card-carrying Republican. She is cut from the same cloth as Clarence Thomas.”

But she isn’t. Nor is she a Republican. Nor was Robert Bork her “mentor and friend.” Nor is she “politically a conservative.” In an interview on 60 Minutes, she acknowledged that she was a Democrat (to the patent surprise of Ed Bradley, her interviewer). And the Wall Street Journal, reporting her activities as an advisor to a feminist group at the Oklahoma Law School, quoted one former member who recalled that “at our meetings, if it wasn’t Reagan-bashing it was Bush-bashing.”

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Bork (who had briefly been her teacher at Yale) as her “mentor and friend.” And a law professor acquainted with Miss Hill remarked that “I suspect she’s a card-carrying Republican. She is cut from the same cloth as Clarence Thomas.”

But she isn’t. Nor is she a Republican. Nor was Robert Bork her “mentor and friend.” Nor is she “politically a conservative.” In an interview on 60 Minutes, she acknowledged that she was a Democrat (to the patent surprise of Ed Bradley, her interviewer). And the Wall Street Journal, reporting her activities as an advisor to a feminist group at the Oklahoma Law School, quoted one former member who recalled that “at our meetings, if it wasn’t Reagan-bashing it was Bush-bashing.”