As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement is the tale of an average citizen in action.
"I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you," she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama's "hard-left agenda."
But Thomas is no ordinary activist.
She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and she has launched a tea-party-linked group that could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court...
It leaves me gasping like a fish that finds itself suddenly on the shore. I knew Justice Thomas was a moron but couldn't his wife wait until he retired to become an open supporter of these America haters? She even uses the idea of "what made America great" to define these bigots, assholes, idiots, and fascists. Is that really "what made America great?" It wasn't tolerance, unions, regulation of industry and finance, reluctance to enter wars, free thinking, and individual freedom? It wasn't outlawing and abhorring torture? What made America great was semi-literate hate mongers with no proof of their allegations, just belief? Fuck that America.
...Her biography notes that Thomas is a fan of Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, author of Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America.
"She is intrigued by Glenn Beck and listening carefully," the bio says. read complete article
Excellent points, Alan. If Limbaugh, Beck, and the majority of the tea partiers had their way, "ordinary citizens" like Virginia Thomas would never have been able to marry Clarence in the first place. He probably would have been lynched by them for looking at her before he ever had a chance to marry her and learn how to hate himself.
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