(CNN) Steve Moore's chances of making it onto the Federal Reserve Board aren't looking so hot right now -- amid a previously unreported tax lien and a series of controversial writings about women and sports.

In the face of his flagging candidacy, Moore heaved a Hail Mary pass on Tuesday in an interview with a conservative talk radio show in North Dakota : He invoked the name of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

"I was so honored when I got the call from Donald Trump. But all it's been since then has been one personal assault after another and a kind of character assassination having nothing to do with economics. ... They're pulling a Kavanaugh against me," Moore said. "I'm taking a 60% pay cut to do this job. So, you know, I mean, it's true public service."

Moore knows exactly what he's doing here. He knows that for conservatives, Kavanaugh's name creates an image of a rabid pack of Democrats -- and the media -- pushing all sorts of negative information into the public in hopes of keeping someone who doesn't share their belief system from serving in public life. They're doing it again! Moore is (trying) to say. Don't let them!

Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court last year became a massive moment in the long-running struggle between liberals and conservatives in the country. Nominated by Trump to fill the seat of retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, Kavanaugh was regarded as the vote that would swing the Supreme Court to the right for years to come if he was confirmed. The fight over Kavanaugh went from a big deal to a MASSIVE deal when Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor, alleged that the SCOTUS nominee had sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers. Kavanaugh vehemently denied the allegations and, along with President Donald Trump, suggested Ford was being put up to all of it by Democrats. (Ford contacted the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, but was insistent that no elected official of either party had urged her to tell her story publicly.)

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