The strident right-wing e-rag with the ironic title "Life News" really really hates Hillary Clinton, even though she gave $10,000 to pro-criminalization candidate Bob Casey, Jr.'s campaign to win the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania's open vulnerable Senate seat this year. Why?

Because they love strict father Rick Santorum, who has unshakable bigotry and misogyny credentials, more. And because Hillary is married to Bill, that unwashed boy from the South who dared rise above his station and become a part of the ruling class. (The good ol' boys are supposed to vet all new entries to the club, and Bill did not even apply. Damn inconvenient sometimes, this democracy thing.)

According to the Post, their campaign blasts Casey as a "Republican-lite on women's issues" and bashed it as a "calculated effort by party leaders to build a so-called 'bigger tent' at the expense of women's rights."

But the reason for Clinton's donation may have nothing to do with abortion.

Casey is running against pro-life Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, a Clinton nemesis. Santorum drew Clinton's ire after he published a rebuttal book to her "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child." Santorum's was titled "It Takes a Family."

A white, straight family with none of them queers or coloreds. Yeah. "Tell your neighbor to fuck off," is the Santorum way. Community? Neighborhood? The folks next door? They don't fit into Santorum's values system. There's no room for a metaphorical village in the radical right's view. Not when they're running the federal government and now have the power to invade people's lives. (Is spying on Americans a family value, too?)

But let's back up a sec. Why the hell is Hillary giving money to Casey during the primary, when he's running against candidates who favor reproductive rights?

Meanwhile, HillPAC spokeswoman Ann Lewis, a noted abortion advocate, told the Post, "Sen. Clinton is committed to electing Democrats through contributions and campaigning on their behalf."

Should Casey defeat Santorum, which is a possibility given his 10 percentage point lead in the polls, it would aide Democratic efforts to recapture the Senate in the November elections.

For Clinton, supporting abortion is still a salient issue and she proved her credentials again with her recent vote against Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Not only did she vote against Alito's nomination, she backed a filibuster engaged in by a handful of the most ardent pro-abortion members of the party.

About Alito, Clinton said "He will intensify his campaign to roll back" abortion rights granted in the Roe v. Wade decision.

Of course, Casey already announced that he thinks Alito would do a heckuva job.

So what kind of Democratic Party is Hillary trying to build, anyway?

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