How should Hillary respond to The Question? Trump has already told us how he plans to phrase it - Bill Clinton “abused” women, and Hillary Clinton defamed, attacked, and reviled those women.
It has to be the most telegraphed punch in history. If you were her advisors, what would you tell her to say?
I might go with something like this:
“Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary. Bill and I have been together for 41 years, through thick and thin. We’re not perfect. It’ hasn’t always been perfect, but it’s been good. I’m sorry America had to witness some of the tough times we went through, and I thank you for hanging in with us while we kept our marriage together. It’s important to us.
“But if you don’t like what Donald just said - if you don’t like the way he talks to women - and to lots of different kinds of Americans — if you don’t like this election - if you think America is better than the kind of sleaze he likes to peddle, and you don’t like the coarsening effect he is having on our society, on our children, I ask you - go to the polls and vote for me. Send me a Congress that will compromise, that will work with the President to get things done. That’s all I ask - elect me, and a reasonable Congress. Give us four years to get to work solving our biggest problems. And I promise you won’t have to listen to garbage like this again. In four years, you can decide if I did a good job. We can take our country back - but I need your help.”