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The danger posed by any protracted bun fight between Trump and Clinton is that large numbers of voters will tune both of them out and turn to some as yet unannounced moderate third party choice. While that person can expect a very hostile response here, even on a very good day Free Republic can hardly imagine that it represents more than ten to twenty per cent of the electorate so that hostility cannot be assumed to extend much further out into the electorate either.

I’m not endorsing that outcome, by the way, in fact I am not even a resident or a voter. I would be hoping for Trump against either Clinton or Sanders and any RINO type moderate. About the only option that I would support other than Trump might be an independent Cruz run or the libertarian option but realistically those can’t win either.

But to the narrower question of “unloading” on Hillary Clinton, I would just ask people to be realistic and ask, where is that going to grow the vote? Sure it’s going to be a red meat moment, but beyond that, how does it lead to the White House? Is it not obvious that the great majority of women voters are starting out quite leery of Donald Trump and watching him unloading on a woman candidate is just going to firm up those negatives.

If I were advising Donald Trump, I would tell him to spend the next month creating a very positive campaign theme, with a title that catches the imagination. What does Trump actually represent? what’s the one or two word title, I find the return to greatness theme a bit preposterous, the country is going to need more than one good president to return to greatness after all the damage of the past two or three decades. Perhaps the theme needs to be restoration or reality check. This is what is so badly needed across the political spectrum and at every level (and in every western democracy too) — much, much more realism and a containment of the rapidly spreading virus of political correctness, which is just communism for school teachers.