@engineer,
Quote:I wonder how Trump's personal attacks are going to play against Clinton.
That's a very interesting question.
First, whoever is the GOP nominee will go after Hillary in predictable ways - she'll be cast as an "insider", a shill of Wall St, untrustworthy and deceitful. All of that is already in play and has been since it became clear she was going to run.
But in that mix, is the sexist element (augmented by the "old" characterization - she's not just a woman, she's an old woman, which is way worse because she's not sexy).
Trump won't be able to resist speaking in such terms because that's the way he thinks (and because he's so bright in understanding what his base wants to hear). But we'd be really foolish, I think, to just assume he will not be wise to these real dangers and alter his speech and behavior in light of them. He keeps surprising us with his smarts at message/media management and he'll likely surprise us a lot more up the road.
Another aspect here concerns how Hillary will react to the sort of unpredictable campaign (and debate style) that we can count on from Trump. Will she bring a book to a knife fight?
