Rorschach test

Margaret Carlson has an excellent analysis of the trouble women who support Hillary have "being consistent." "Listen to Geraldine Ferraro charge that Senator Barack Obama wouldn't be able to step onto the same podium as Hillary Clinton if he were white, when Ferraro wouldn't have been a vice presidential candidate in 1984 if she were a man," Carlson suggests.

Many of my calls and e-mails since the Spitzer story broke are from women (and some men) who say the whole mess shows how much better the world would be if there were more women in these top jobs.

There'd be no seducing underage pages, no foot-tapping in airport restrooms, no comparison shopping at escort services, no more cringe-inducing press conferences. I can't remember seeing a man in similar circumstances standing by his woman.

Consistent with that group but adding a loud fillip are those who come down on Silda Spitzer as if she were the one who spent a reported $80,000 on hookers. I was at a dinner with some of them, all ardent Clinton supporters, appalled that she hadn't hit her husband over the head with a frying pan instead of appearing with him.

This is the definition of cognitive dissonance.

If you ever bring up the Clintons' marital history, as Republicans surely will, Hillary Clinton supporters, back in touch with their inner feminism, will clobber you for blaming a woman for saving her marriage.

Read the whole commentary at Bloomberg.com.