Does anyone know if Oprah woke up today with a horse head in her bed? It’s been 24 hours and it’s already getting ugly.

Patrick Healy of the New York Times, no doubt first forced to watch the Vagina Monologues to get in touch with his inner female before writing this, has fired the first shot at The Oprah on behalf of The Clintons.

Message: women are still alive who didn’t have the right to vote. You must stick with the woman so that these old women can finally see one of their own in the White House.

I told her that my grandmother was the first person in town to vote, and my mother was the second, said Mrs. Smith, who was born three months before the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. And I told her I was born before women could vote, and I want to live long enough to see a woman in the White House.

Since then Mrs. Smiths story has become a grace note in Mrs. Clintons stump speech. At the same time, the many other elderly women who turn out for Clinton campaign events have become welcome set pieces, visibly demonstrating the candidates effort to highlight her sex and her overtures to female voters, whom the campaign is counting on to propel her to the Democratic presidential nomination.

I wish I could insert barf noises into this post.

Read on . . .