Clarence Thomas’s Wife Launches Tea Party Group

Virginia Lamp Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has started something called Liberty Central Inc because of President Obama’s “hard-left agenda.” (h/t The Political Carnival)

“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.”

An “ordinary citizen,” that is, whose husband just happens to be a justice of the United States Supreme Court. An “ordinary citizen” who is able raise big corporate cash for her new concern because of a recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United vs.  Federal Election Commission, where her husband voted in the majority. An “ordinary citizen” who has consulted the heavily-funded conservative Heritage Foundation.

In 2000, while at the Heritage Foundation, she was recruiting staff for a possible George W. Bush administration as her husband was hearing the case that would decide the election. When journalists reported her work, Thomas said she saw no conflict of interest and that she rarely discussed court matters with her husband.

Mrs. Thomas is quite fond of the tea partiers.

“I adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country,” Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said on the panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great.”

The move by Virginia Thomas, 52, into the front lines of politics stands in marked contrast to the rarefied culture of the nation’s highest court, which normally prizes the appearance of nonpartisanship and a distance from the fisticuffs of the politics of the day.

And the tea partier is quite fond of certain conservative bloviators.

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.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.