Reckon Dutton has a better chance of increasing his likeability by tolerating the barbs and ridicule, by turning the other cheek. People don't like bullying and will warm to him in time.
It has already started with the recent attack by Tanya P, auditioning for a vacancy in the mean girls. It forced Dutton to reveal a medical condition, and Tanya to eat a certain sandwich. No amount of speechwriting can achieve that sort of humanising for him.
