Was Hillary right?

Some time ago, Hillary Clinton used the phrase "vast right-wing conspiracy" to decry what she and Bill felt was a systematic and highly organized effort by powerful and influential ultra-right-wing conservatives to move the country to the right. Republicans and many in the media scoffed, while ordinary citizens reacted with scepticism or complacency. I put myself in the latter category. Events of the past eight years, however, have shown that she was on to something. Here is just one example. It's a quote from Robert Bork who you may remember was denied a seat on the Supreme Court. Check the last phrase:
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But conservatives said the disappointment and even anger are shared by a broad cross section of their movement. Appearing on MSNBC's "The Situation With Tucker Carlson," Bork complained that Miers "has no experience with constitutional law whatever" and called her selection "kind of a slap in the face to the conservatives who've been building up a conservative legal movement for the last 20 years." From SFGATE: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/08/MNGL9F4GHE1.DTL
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When one considers that Reagan abolished the fairness doctrine and how the conservative movement has subsequently taken over much of the media, along with Bush's ramming through extremist or agenda-driven judges, it makes Hillary look prescient.