Posted on 05/05/2016 8:24:46 AM PDT by mandaladon
Donald Trump has set a big, fat trap for Hillary Clinton, and so far she has stepped right into it. He turned his attacks against women against her. She is, he argued, playing the “woman card.” And Clinton anted up, offering her supporters the chance to buy a “woman card.” From now until Nov. 8, Trump will surely continue to insult women. If Clinton routinely responds to those attacks, Trump will turn her into the “women’s candidate,” and she will lose. She is already perilously close to being that candidate.
Let’s be honest. Polling shows that Trump has a problem with women, but it also shows that Clinton has a problem with men. Thanks to Bernie Sanders’s pushing and prodding over the course of the primary, Clinton’s vision has expanded, but we all know its core: She is a battle-tested warrior for women and children.
Consider her slogan, “Fighting for us.” For many men, this slogan would have to be experienced as emasculating. A woman fighting for them? Rightly or wrongly, the slogan rubs the wrong way in relation to traditional notions of masculinity. Her slogan itself reveals a limited conception of who she seeks to represent. This is a potentially fatal flaw in Clinton’s campaign. The more that Clinton takes Trump’s bait around the issue of his denigration of women, the more powerfully this flaw in her own campaign will show itself.
Clinton needs to fix this problem, and fast. And she needs to avoid taking Trump’s bait.
here are important lessons to be learned from the many Republican candidates who rose to the bait and were decimated by Trump’s rhetoric. His monikers for them consistently had two effects: They pushed his foes off message and also forced them to fight on turf that Trump chose for them.
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I’d like to know what the witch has ever done for ANYONE other than herself?
Truly, is there ANYTHING?
The more people see of her the more people will dislike her.
If I didn't hate her guts already, I would after that. LOL!!
I’ve seen enough of Hillary to last me the rest of my life. It is past time for the Clintons to leave the stage.
She scrambled to recover but failed miserably.
Trump has used the media to his favor. He's there morning, noon and night. Always making himself available for the media.
Hilary HAS ALWAYS tried to control AND LIMITED her media exposure.
She'll spend 10's or even 100's of millions on controlled ads.
Trump will appear anywhere and everywhere. FREE tv time.
Trump does not insult women, Hillary panders.
Danielle... Iron my shirt!
“From now until Nov. 8, Trump will surely continue to insult women. If Clinton routinely responds to those attacks, Trump will turn her into the “women’s candidate,” and she will lose. She is already perilously close to being that candidate.”
Wrong. Wrong. And wrong. Really stupid wrong. But, I have no problem with the WaPo being wrong.
Trump will obliterate HRC on this if he has any savvy and he does.
HRC is going be savaged. For the sake of productivity and time management, I am combining crying tears of sympathy and joy all at the same time.
Beat that like a rented mule.
Nah. On that day, Zero pardons her. You don’t think he really knew what she was up to all along?
We have a winner.
She and Billy should be rotting in prison for the rest of their lives for their many crimes. Friends who have known them personally in Arkansas can attest to how wicked the Clintons truly are.
Thank you Ross Perot for giving us these two scumbags.
I hope Trump chews her up and spits her out.
I’m hoping Obozo’s hate for the Clintons trumps his party solidarity.
She probably has too much on him.
It appears to be working much better than the Cubanadian ju-jitsu Cruz was using.
Be honest with yourselves Wash Po, “The Woman Card” is the only thing Hillary can offer. Her lifetime resume of corruption and incompetence renders her unfit for the office.
Great observation. She simply can’t keep up with him.
>>It appears to be working much better than the Cubanadian ju-jitsu Cruz was using.
Come on. That’s over now. We need the Cruz supporters on our side.
Hillary insults every sane thinking American when she gives speeches about ending the goal industry then sits at a table across from an actual blue collar coal miner and tells a bald faced lie with a strait face all while looking him strait in the eyes. This woman is reprehensible
WaPo actually gets something right. How strange.
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