Sandra Day O'Connor: The Woman Who Destroyed America Because She Wanted to Quit Her Job

Sandra Day O'Connor will always be referred to as the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court. No one can take that accomplishment away from her. Not even she herself. The legacy of her triumph will never be quite what it was before the year 2000, however, and for that Sandra Day O'Connor can blame nobody but herself.

The long, sordid history of political scandals in America involves sex, revenge, paranoia and abuse of power. A very few involve petty and unwarranted fears by those that have turned the lives of millions upside and sent America off her rails. While some scandals have hurt only those powers involved, the worst scandals have wrought unknown damage to American and her citizens. It touches upon the ironic without fully reaching the precipice of appropriate usage of that too often misunderstood and misappropriated word that the single greatest political scandal in American history turned upon the emotional disapprobation of the first female Supreme Court justice. It is, indeed, almost enough to make one consider temporarily that those whose minds have shut to the idea of women being in power because of a mythical hysteria attached to all of their gender may have actually been onto something. Of course, the fact that males acting sheerly upon their own hysterical emotions were deeply involved in this hurtful scandal undoes any such desire to allow one's mind to meander into the marshy moors of such modest mental acuity as to suggest that women need no longer apply for jobs allegedly involving at least a modicum degree of logic.