Abortion, abortion, abortion.  That's been the focus of Samuel Alito's nomination, of course. 

Charles Krauthammer explains in Distorting Sam Alito how liberal interest groups have purposely misrepresented Alito's opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey to make him look "out of the mainstream":

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In the coming days you will hear that Alito "supports" strip searches of 10-year-olds and the private possession of machine guns. The Brady anti-gun campaign has already called Alito "Machine Gun Sammy." You will also hear that he is hostile to minorities, immigrants, women, workers, the disabled, the environment . . . you name it. These claims are based on the same distortion that we see in attacks on Alito's abortion ruling in Casey -- the deliberate confusion of a constitutional judgment (almost invariably based on the Supreme Court's own precedents) with a personal policy preference.

It was disgraceful when that same deliberate distortion was used in television ads to accuse John Roberts of "supporting" people who blow up abortion clinics. It remains disgraceful today.