As far as I’m concerned she’ll be remembered for only two things. Being the first woman on the Supreme Court which is on the short list of good acts of St. Reagan’s reign of error. It only happened because the doddering old fart blurted it during a debate with Carter and the Republicans probably thought, That’ll work! We will get the broad vote now! When the opening presented itself, obviously St. Reagan’s handlers said, C’mon, we didn’t mean it! But this is one promise he actually followed through on unlike the actresses he raped on the casting couch saying it was just a date.
Despite O’Connor being a female, she passed the critical Republican litmus tests via her WASP credentials (why I refuse to include her maiden name in her surname, again, it’s a pompous American WASP trait). In short, she appeared to be a clone of Phyllis Schlafly. Her apologists have gone on to claim she was the swing vote through the Rehnquist years, if not siding with the Conservatives 23% of the time is “swinging.”
As for the second act, it was O’Connor’s most damning act, she voted for Dubious in the disastrous Bush v. Gore decision, installing one of the most incompetent POTUSes until 2016. She wasn’t discrete about her opinion on this neither. Before the Florida mess, she was overheard at a Beltway cocktail party stated how she hoped Gore would lose because she disliked him. Thanks asshole! Dubious then crapped on O’Connor during his next and only legitimate term by replacing her with Samuel Alito, a bigger dick wanting to take the country further back in time. All part of the Republican and Federalist Society’s endgame to make Amerika a Corporate version of Gilead.
Many of you may be now thinking, Jesus Steve! Give O’Connor a break! She was the first woman and moderate Republican. To you I say, ha! There’s little difference with the GOP. The current bunch beholden to Orange Foolius are brownshirts who wanting to make a Fascist WASP society with Jewish, Catholic and Mormon trustees. A moderate wants the same thing, just without all the tacky display, you know, swastikas, visible concentration camps and riots. So-called moderates don’t want to get their hands dirty in making those they find undesirable “go away.” Her legacy is on par with Clarence Thomas’. We’ll never know how many bribes she took for her vote and she kicked the ladder down for millions of women.