But there is a nagging voice within me that says, be careful. Republicans in general and Trump in particular suffer from a gender gap which the Democrats have been able to exploit in several election cycles under circumstances that absolutely bewildered me. How is it that Republicans are sexist because they choose not to subsidize some female student's sex while in graduate school and pay for her birth control? As a male I simply do not understand how this absurd argument gained traction with females but it indisputably did. And it was indisputably contrived from beginning to end from George Stephanopoulos to "legitimate rape."
We male Republicans do not understand how women get their news, how they form their opinions, why they vote the way they do. Have you ever taken a look at women's magazines? They are vile propaganda sheets inserted between cosmetic ads. I would rather gag than be subjected to an hour of Oprah but she influences millions of votes.
At the risk of being a chauvinist swine may I ask, how many women will watch Donald Trump in the debates and not hear what he is saying but simply react negatively to his aggressiveness? I love his aggressiveness, just as I loved Newt Gingrich's aggressiveness. But I am an aging white Republican. From what I understand of the very unrefined polling results available to date concerning Donald Trump, his appeal to women shows a profound gender gap. Moreover many of these women polled are Republican rather than Democrat, women whom we would expect to be less vulnerable to creeping Oprah Winfrey-ism.
But if we cannot fight the fight on this issue, where can we?
