Hillary Clinton Seizes on Donald Trump’s Remarks to Galvanize Women

[DemocratSinceBirth]

After Hillary Clinton attacked Donald J. Trump for proposing to bar Muslims from entering the United States, calling him “ISIS’ best friend,” Mr. Trump’s response Monday night was angry and vulgar. He said her bathroom break during Saturday’s debate was “disgusting,” and he used a crude sexual reference to describe her defeat by Barack Obama in the 2008 primary.

Mrs. Clinton’s aides could barely believe their good fortune. Mr. Trump had just given them new fodder to galvanize women



behind her candidacy — and they used it.

“We are not responding to Trump,” Mrs. Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, responded to Mr. Trump, almost gleefully, on Twitter. “But everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should,” she added, tacking on the campaign’s girl-power hashtag #ImWithHer.

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“It’s not O.K.,” said Katie Packer Gage, a Republican strategist whose firm, Burning Glass Consulting, focuses on improving the party’s standing with women. “Guess what?” she added, “It takes a girl longer to go to the bathroom because they can’t go standing up. Polite society suggests we don’t talk about these things.”

On Tuesday night, Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter, “When I said that Hillary Clinton got schlonged by Obama, it meant got beaten badly,” and he blamed the news media for misinterpreting the remark as vulgar.

The Clinton campaign’s emboldened new posture toward Mr. Trump grew from months of watching how his Republican rivals struggled to challenge him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-women-isis.html?_r=0

[Iliyah]

1. The GOP does not have a good track record on the rights of women nor much respect.

[thereismore]

2. I think she is already running the general campaign. I think that's a mistake. nt

[LuvLoogie]

3. She is differentiating the Democratic Party from the GOP.

She is not running against Bernie. She is seeking the U.S. Presidential Democratic Party candidacy. As such, she is making her case as to why she is the best candidate to seek the Presidency. She is in Iowa and New Hampshire campaigning face to face with voters and taking questions. She closes her Town Halls in Iowa with appeals to caucus for her. She is advertising in Iowa. Her biggest ground contingent is in Iowa. She is running a state-by-state campaign.

Maybe what you really want is an intra-party fight? When 30 percent (my guess) of Bernie's support is anti-Hillary, and half of his support is due to the fact that he is running as a Democrat (come lately), and Hillary is the front runner nationally with over 50% fully-vetted support, why wouldn't she also focus on what REALLY is at stake?

It's called multitasking.

[Cha]

4. Good.. it deserves it.