At last night\’s Oscars, some of the biggest cheers were given to best supporting actress winner Patricia Arquette, for her impassioned demand that women be compensated equally with men.

That\’s hardly a surprise since a lot of people – quite possibly Ms. Arquette among them – are still of the belief that women\’s salaries average just 77 cents on the dollar versus men.

With that in mind, I wonder if Patricia Arquette is a Hillary Clinton supporter.

The reason for my curiosity is that, according to a wage analysis of Ms. Clinton\’s senate staff conducted by the conservative Washington Free Beacon (who did you expect would do this?  The Washington Post?), female staffers averaged all of 72 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts.

Funny thing, though:  for as long as I can remember, Ms. Clinton has made exactly the same demand for wage equality that Ms. Arquette was talking about. 

Would that dissuade those who advocate equal pay for equal work (like me, for example) from being a tad wary of Hillary Clinton\’s commitment to this objective?  Would it make a few of them wonder if – again – Hillary Clinton talks a good game but, in reality, is full of crap?

Maybe that is another reason she has gone on hiatus/into hillbernation for the past couple of months. 

If so, I don\’t blame her.  While a lot of women are so signed, sealed and delivered to Her Royal Hillaryness that blatant hypocrisies like these will be ignored, there just may be some women – maybe a good many of them – who might reaction negatively to this information.

I hope so.