More proof that Hillary is really a Republican in liberal clothing.

Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.

“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.

Mr Simpson’s remarks help explain why Mr Obama is trailing Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival, by 40 percentage points ahead of Tuesday’s primary election in the heavily white and rural state, according to recent opinion polls.

"I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife's and Atheist"? I heard? Who did he hear that from? The Republicans? Or the Clinton campaign? And how would you tell them apart?

Is this, or is this not, the same low hanging fruit that George W. Bush plucked to make up his most loyal base?

These are the simple, under educated, people that believe every scurrilous lie told to them and who never do an ounce of independent research to look for the truth. And they will be the ones that vote for McCain once Hillary drops out because their minds have been poisoned by the negative stereotypes about Obama that have been tattooed on their feeble little brains.

I think that when this is over we should concentrate on finding a Democrat to run against Hillary in New York and get out of our party for good. She is not one of us.