both of them. david, wouldn t the argument for trump then be that if you re going to the media are going to be all-in for hillary and there s going to be a barrage against whoever the nominee is, and you ve got to have a big enough candidate who can kind of bypass them and punch through them. on the numbers, isn t trump already doing that in a sense? absolutely. and that s why i disagree with joe that it s a win-win. i think it s a win-lose. it s a win for trump if he doesn t go too far and get too cute. but hillary says she deplores what he s doing. actually, she relishes it because it gives her an artificial opportunity to go after trump as a sexist. but she s outthinking herself because playing the gender card does not make her look good at a time when national security is foremost on people s minds and she wants to portray him like a bully like she can t stand it and she can t fight with the big boys and she s worried about
race card. that kind of thing is so tiresome, it s so pathetic. it s so beneath the office of the president in this particular president and yet, he is still playing it. why? because we are going into an election year. hillary clinton will be running, assuming she is the nominee as the first female president. she is already playing the gender card against donald trump and some of the republicans. this is what they do. they have to carve up the electorate, play identity politics in order to get elected, divide and conquer. that s what they do. i haven t seen this much iewd at this politics probably ever. this is what they do because this is the only way they can win divide and conquer. leave it right there mondayca. merry christmas. merry christmas. how should conservative christians respond to the syrian refugee crisis? we ll talk to pastor robert jeffress up ahead. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio.
candidate invoke as hard scrabble or emotional backstory to explain to voters who they are, where they come from and what they will do as president. that is not limited to men or women or republicans and democrats. everybody does that. but the bigger point here i think is that, you know, she is trying to establish herself as the best person to take on hillary clinton, who is playing the gender card all over the place. what carly is trying to say look, whether it is me or whether it is one of the men on the stage we better figure out a way to handle hillary clinton and her use of the gender card if we re going to have any hope of success. martha: doug, what do you think? i think what carly fiorina did to try to tie mr. deese clearly inappropriate and rude, i agree with you vulgar assertion to ted cruz makes very, very little sense. indeed the larger message that i draw from this is these kind of exchanges only help hillary
said to me, i was watching the debate, i didn t realize carly fiorina was a breast cancer survivor. i didn t realize she lost a child to addiction. people are just starting to tune in. we re emersed in this all the time. i don t begrudge carly telling her story. there is a very fine line here, sexism as a political matter is very complicated thing. nobody wants to see a woman, hillary or carly whining about the double-standard even though the double-standard is real. it does exist. if you re running for president you can t be complaining about it. martha: i wonder if it is not more powerful if hillary goes all the way to the gender card and sort of inspire people, don t you want to vote for the first female american president, stronger for one women in the republican race, it doesn t matter whether i m a man or woman, it is my call qualifications i want you to look at the moist. carly fiorina, who probably won t be nominee but almost
there s a double standard for liberal women versus conservative women. let s be realistic. this is the campaign she s going to run. she will play the gender card over and over and over. why? because she actually can t talk about how right she s been on foreign policy. why? because she actually doesn t have a track record of accomplishment. and actually that s why it matters who we put up against her. i can beat hillary clinton. i m here in iowa. i will tell you people cannot wait to see a debate between me and hillary clinton. and the reason for that is they know i can beat her and we must win. is there a difference? because i ve noticed you probably have been the most aggressive of all the candidates in going after her in particular. i don t think she s a front-runner. i think this is a coronation. she has the nomination. do you think some of your fellow gop candidates saw what happened to rick lazio, know what happened to mitt romney and maybe are a little bit bit more timid and wi