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In recent years, Bork has cast himself as a cranky pessimist.
Financed by a cranky right-wing philanthropist, Richard Mellon Scaife, Ruddy's repeated bromides about the Foster case have been republished in newspaper ads across the country; his sheer persistence has led some casual observers to conclude he might be on to something.
G. Cranky Orrin Hatch is annoyed that everyone doesn't just agree with him, and he thinks the best remedy is to mount a futile run for the presidency.
It is the wolverine state, "although scientists believe there were never many wolverines there," notes a cranky Willis Dunbar, author of the World Book essay.
I certainly think the Right has plenty of post-ideological problems of its own (and Safire is as cranky about Russia as many on the Left.)