“Virginia Thomas has many ardent defenders. In fact, it’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t think that Ginni, as everyone calls the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, has a perfect right to launch herself headlong into the Tea Party movement with the founding of her own group, Liberty Central Inc. As Thomas herself said, pointing out that the Supreme Court’s ethics office had approved her new endeavor, ‘I did not give up my First Amendment rights when my husband became a justice of the Supreme Court.’ In the end, this has turned into the kind of roll-out Thomas couldn’t have planned better. No one much noticed when Liberty Central opened shop in February. Now Thomas and her allies get lots of publicity as the champions of wife-activists who can righteously breathe fire at the left for hypocrisy.” (03/16/10)