What the hell is going on here?  Do the Clinton surrogates have no sense of shame or even political propriety?  And while Hillary herself is solidly behind Joe Biden and Barack Obama, some voters are most certainly not.

"This is a voter's revolt," said Darragh Murphy, who founded Puma PAC, a pro-Clinton political action committee whose acronym stands for People United Means Action.

Polls suggest Obama's narrow national lead is all but disappearing amid attacks from a newly aggressive and disciplined McCain campaign. One reason for this appears to be that barely half of Clinton's supporters plan to vote for Obama, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released last week. With the last two presidential elections decided by a small number of voters in swing states, Obama needs a unified party to win in November.

Puma PAC is among a multitude of pro-Clinton groups that formed online to protest a variety of issues, including perceived media bias and flaws in the primary process. In Denver, Murphy's group plans to show the premiere of an unfinished movie, "The Audacity of Democracy," and is cosponsoring a protest and candlelight salute to Clinton tomorrow. Another group, PUMA 08, will coordinate communication between its members and the press, and provide a home base for bloggers who support Clinton.

A separate organization, 18 Million Voices Rise Hillary Rise, is calling on Clinton supporters to join a march and gathering celebrating Clinton's achievements and the 88th anniversary of women's suffrage on Tuesday.

Democratic analysts downplay the significance of the demonstrators because Clinton's top aides and prominent supporters have shunned them. But analysts are aware they could be a distraction.

"I think the vast majority of the Hillary folks did fall in love with Hillary - and now are certainly falling in line with Obama," said Democratic strategist Chris Lehane. "Having said that, there's going to be the largest gathering of press outside of Beijing in Denver this week, with all of them on a hair-trigger for the slightest sign of dissonance and conflict. . . . It has all the elements of a tinderbox environment."

The goal for O-Biden at the Denver convention tomorrow is to bury the hatchet with these voters, but it's going to be a tightrope walk.  The Village will be looking for any excuse to make the Democrats seem inept, broken, and weak.  They always do.  And the GOP is already making the pitch to disaffected Hillary voters.

In a blistering new ad, John McCain's campaign accused Barack Obama of passing over Hillary Clinton as his running mate because she pointed out his flaws during the Democratic primaries.

Obama announced Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential pick Saturday, following reports that Clinton was not even vetted for the job.

McCain's ad capitalizes on the lingering tension between Obama and Clinton's supporters, with just one day remaining until the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

"She won millions of votes. But isn't on his ticket. Why? For speaking the truth," the narrator in the ad says.

The ad then quotes Clinton criticizing Obama for being vague and "increasingly negative."

"The truth hurt. And Obama didn't like it," the narrator says.

The subtext, as subtle as a 20-pound sledgehammer to the privates, is "Screw O-biden!  Vote McSame!"

Let's get one thing perfectly straight, folks.  This is an organized effort from the beginning to sink Obama.  The Clinton camp allowing this kind of stuff to air publicly on the weekend before the convention is proof enough for me that Hillary Plan 2012 is on...and the speed at which these pro-Hillary groups have organized for Denver all but locks it down as the plan all along.  As the Clinton people say, they knew it wasn't going to be her from the start.  They made no effort to disabuse the Village or their voters of the hope that she was going to be Obama's pick.  Hillary could have put an end to it, but chose not to.

So instead of Hillary Clinton being the bridge to unite the party behind O-biden, now Hillary Clinton will become the wedge the GOP hopes to drive into the heart of the Democrats in 2008 and split off enough voters to give McSame a fighting chance in November.  The Villiage may be aiding and abetting the GOP's tactics...but so is Hillary.

She's working for the other side now.  She has been since became clear she wasn't going to win back in early May.  The Clintons will make no real effort to help O-Biden.  Surrogates will continue to attack Obama in front of the Village while Hillary professes her undying support.  The GOP will continue to feature her in attack ads.  It's the same tactics we'd expect the GOP to pull.  Any attempt to denounce Hillary will only draw further attacks from not the Clintons, but the Village talking heads and the GOP coming to her defense.

Hillary knows she has a shot in 2016.  But she knows she has a better shot in 2012.  All she has to do is screw over America to get it.  Strap in, kids.  It's gonna be an ugly week.  You need a scorecard to keep track of the good guys and bad guys, and Hillary falls directly into the latter.

Cross-posted at ZVTS.