The Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" have a new smear tactic in use against Clarence Thomas

....."A 'bitter' and 'angry' man who really has no reason to feel that way."


Excerpt:

"Just days before--and we'd completely forgotten about this, as it was overshadowed by the Hill circus--someone at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where Thomas then served, leaked a copy of a draft opinion Thomas had written. As he explains on page 246:

'This breach of confidentiality was unprecedented. One of the hallmarks of the federal judiciary had always been the absolute secrecy in which it worked. Leaks were unthinkable--until now. The case in question involved preferences given to women by the Federal Communications Commission in awarding radio-station licenses, and it was clear that my opinion had been leaked by a person or persons who wanted to portray me as unsympathetic to women's causes.'

With this pair of leaks, Thomas's political foes managed to violate the integrity of the FBI, the Senate and the D.C. Circuit--that is, of all three branches of government. This behavior was unethical, unconscionable and possibly criminal, and no one has ever been held to account for it.

Thomas's opponents believed that the end justified the means, as a former foe tells the justice's wife on page 232:

'Years later a young woman who had worked for one of the many groups opposed to my nomination approached Virginia. "We didn't think of your husband as human, and I'm sorry," she said, tears streaming down her face. "We thought that anything was justified because our access to abortions and sex was at risk." The woman went on to explain that she had subsequently had a religious conversion and now felt that it was her duty to apologize to us.'

Now, those who remain unrepentant are reduced to arguing, pathetically, that Justice Thomas--and the rest of us--should countenance the means because they failed to realize the end."

The smearing of Justice Thomas now is just as reprehensible as the smearing done years ago during his confirmation hearings.

The ideologues who are responsible for this are despicable and beneath contempt.