The real Hillary supporters won't back McCain

If you know anything about big-time gambling, you’ll be aware that a “shill” is somebody who plays for the house. A Republican shill is a woman who antes into the Hillary Clinton game while playing for John McCain.

The object is to cast Obama’s feminine supporters as petulant poop-outs -- or at least give the public the impression that if they can’t have Hillary Clinton, they’re all going to pick up their toys and go home. Like a lemming, the genuine Democratette is supposed to follow the opposition right over the cliff.

It’s a manufactured feud, with the object of splitting Democratic solidarity. Any woman who claims she’s going to “go Republican” rather than cast her vote for Barack Obama is, and has been Republican all along.

Her tactics are Republican. Her sentiments are Republican.

Her lies about her party affiliation are as typically Republican as a George Bush euphemism for torture. Her real choice is no choice at all, and for women under a McCain supreme court, that choice will be complete subservience to men.

Imagine any female voter with a thinking-woman’s mentality betraying her gender, her party, her role model in Hillary -- all in the name of Hillary.

Imagine discrediting this highly regarded senator by implying she’s as petty and vindictive as the kind of women who are using her for their own Republican purposes.

The Republicans have supported Clinton against Obama from the beginning because they think she’d be easier to smear than Obama.

There’s never been any doubt that Hillary would be an excellent choice for president of the United States, but in the eyes of the Republican opposition, she’d be an easier target.

Her speech and nomination from the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Denver assuredly resolved any doubts of Hillary’s keeping the faith. Her champions’ loyalty in following suit will bring added support for Barack Obama.