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One of the most unique Supreme Court feeding frenzies on record was the confirmation hearings for now Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Because of his sacrifice U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, who is filling a key court seat, will not have to undergo his televised hardball treatment. What America saw was this seemingly uncontrolled feminist agenda on open display to take no prisoners in its attempt to destroy Thomas and polarize America for generations to come.

Americans sat spellbound and watched the Senate proceedings wondering when the feminist smoking gun would be produced and show the nation the alleged damaged goods that then President Bush had nominated to the nation's highest court. The minority community leaders like Rev. Jesse Jackson were in lock step with the National Organization of Women (NOW) and their defense of Anita Hill, who had been allegedly sexually harassed by Thomas. Of course Rev. Jackson is quite familiar with sexual harassment, but the nation would not know about his sexual shenanigans until later in the next administration.

Liberals wanted their version of a Supreme Court justice and it was not supposed to be Clarence Thomas. After all he did not articulate their liberal-speak. He had supposedly abandoned his "Democratic roots." He was not supposedly of the same stripe as the recently deceased Justice Thurgood Marshall -- who had almost single handedly won the historic 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case which struck down the Separate but Equal doctrine that had plagued Black America for generations.

What was Thomas thinking? And, more importantly, what President George H. W. Bush was thinking was that in America there is more than one type of American and certainly more than one type of black American. Could it be conceivable that by naming a black conservative to the bench the president was in fact producing the exact result that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of when he was fighting for a melting pot that reflected all Americans of every type, complexion, and political philosophy? Or were the liberals who were trying to engineer Judge Clarence Thomas' personal destruction only interested in the highlights from King's speech...sort of the Cliff Notes version?

Instead this non-Democrat who had seemingly "forgotten his roots," this conservative black judge, who was so bold as to believe that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted and not used as a legislative football, would take a seat away from a "liberal" nominee! ...How awful indeed.

Liberals wanted a nominee that all the current polls would decide -- a poll of the people with NOW standing on the sidelines with ultimate veto power.

The president ignored the polls. Even upon naming Clarence Thomas, many liberals and feminists wailed and even likened him to the second coming of the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan or at least his illegitimate child. They clearly felt that he would turn back the clock on all civil rights decisions and close out the century and ring in the new one with an era of repressive segregationist and sexist legal tyranny.

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