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I agree that the attacks on Trump do seem to violate Reagan’s commandment. And while I’m no Trump backer, I have no doubt the GOPe has indeed set out the orders to take him out. Any threat to Jeb’s coronation must be disposed of.

That said, Trump is not doing himself any good. He wants to stick up for himself and counterpunch. Great. But it reminds me of a situation that a friend and I talked about a few years back. Brandon Phillips of our suffering Cincinnati Reds called the St. Louis Cardinals players a bunch of whiners. He comes into the batter’s box to start the game, and the Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina starts, well whining, and an onfield brawl breaks out.

This is kind of the same thing. Megyn Kelly, whether she should have done it or not, asks him if past dealings with women will make it easy for Hillary (or whomever) to ramp up the “war on women meme”.

So now here Trump is saying, “That’s not fair, that’s not me.” And it may not be. Yet here he is as well continuing to rant about Megyn Kelly, to rant about Carly Fiorina, and yeah, Chris Wallace. But he’d better darn well be prepared and his supporters better darn well be prepared to realize that if he’s going to carry on for days in long drawn out battles with women, whether it’s accurate or not, and whether he started it or not, it WILL be portrayed as Donald Trump’s war on women. Particularly if he keeps getting into these skirmishes. And yeah, he’s still doing well in the polls so maybe it will hurt him and maybe it won’t. But that WILL be the Democratic party narrative if he’s still in the race running as a Republican late in the game.