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Three days after the terrorist attack in which 14 people were killed at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, a crowd of 1,500 Republican faithful streamed into the sunny lobby of Cedar Rapids' U.S. Cellular Center, passed through metal detectors, and took their seats for a four-hour oratory marathon by four presidential candidates, ostensibly focused on economic issues. But people's minds seemed elsewhere -- flags, as you drove through the city, waved at half-staff, and murmurs about homegrown terror were amplifying quickly. He wasn't in attendance that day in Iowa, and it would be two more days before he...

In a time of national anxiety, women voters are again turning to Republicans to protect the country. Suddenly, it feels like 2002. Democrats got creamed in midterm elections that year because the women voters they had relied on throughout the Clinton years deserted them. In 2000, women favored Democratic congressional candidates by nine points. In 2002, that advantage disappeared entirely. The biggest reason: 9/11. In polls that year, according to Gallup, women consistently expressed more fear of terrorism that men. And that fear pushed them toward the GOP, which they trusted far more to keep the nation safe. As then-Senator...

The founder of Moms4Bush from 2004 has launched a new site for the 2008 Campaign. This group was instrumental in assisting with electing GWB to the White House. They ran ads in the swing states, had grassroots teams in 32 states, hosted rallies and kept the "Security Mom" issue on the front burner with the media. Of course the MSM always referred to them as the "So Called Security Moms......" This year they have returned. They still believe that our National Security and the war on terror are major issues for our next president.

FORT MILL -- Fred Thompson brought his made-for-TV personality to York County for the first time on Tuesday, delivering a talk that mixed his trademark Southern drawl with sharp words for others in the Republican presidential field. Thompson needed less than 15 seconds to dispatch with the obligatory assault on Democrats as strong on welfare programs and weak on national security. But he spent the rest of an hourlong visit to Beef 'O' Brady's restaurant pointing out differences with rivals in his own party. The strongest critique was saved for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who leads in the polls...

“We’ve never had a mother who ever ran or was elected president…” That was Hillary Clinton speaking earlier this week, when she appeared on the television show The View. Don’t think for a minute that she was just making an interesting historical observation. No, Hillary doesn’t work that way. She never says or does anything that hasn’t been perfectly scripted and endlessly polled beforehand. She had a message, a new strategy to try out. So look for the new “Mom Strategy” to be the anchor of her presidential run. Forget Soccer Moms and Security Moms; now it’s going to be...

There is a New Poll Freepers Need To Take! Many of us heard all the hype since Friday about the latest Security Mom poll done for "The Washington Post." Even Rush opened his show with a rant about the drive by media and this article. Your Drive-By Media: GOP Losing Security Moms? http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081806/content/truth_detector.guest.html Much is being said about how "security moms" will vote in the next presidential election (even the upcoming 2006 midterm elections). We can't let this debate go by without hearing from FreeRepublic's own "security moms" whose voices led to many national media interviews and newspaper articles, and...

I occasionally wander over to the left side of the blogoshere to have a look-see. Not too many surprises. Hate,rage,disgust,arrogance, and mockery disguised as cynicism and reality-based thinking. It makes you wonder: if President Bush were as evil as they imagine, and were as hell-bent on installing a theocratic dictatorship as they claim, then why haven't they taken up armed revolt against this unjust government? One reason may be that the members of their group who would have had the courage to take such a stand are no longer voting for Democrats. And, until the Democrats are willing to seriously...

IN the 1960s, my sister was part of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. She was arrested in a civil rights sit-in. Naturally, she was a lifelong Democrat. Today, she is a “9-11 Republican.” She is not alone. My sister is no less committed to civil rights than before. But she believes that not being murdered by Islamist terrorists is also an important civil right. She is not sure that the Democratic Party completely agrees with her. For 9-11 Republicans, this is the most significant political issue. The GOP “gets it,” while the Democratic Party doesn't. Many recent former Democrats...

Married women with children, the "security moms" whose concerns about terrorism made them essential to Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, are taking flight from GOP politicians this year in ways that appear likely to provide a major boost for Democrats in the midterm elections.... Married mothers said in interviews here that they remain concerned about national security and the ability of Democrats to keep them safe from terrorist strikes. But surveys indicate Republicans are not benefiting from this phenomenon as they have before. Disaffection with President Bush, the Iraq war, and other concerns such as rising gasoline prices and...

Scooop.net (www.scooop.net), a next-generation media site based on democratic voting principles and active participation of its members, released the results of its weekly “Hot Topics” survey held last week which asked whether the U.S. government has “gone too far” regarding the domestic war on terror. When asked whether the U.S. should authorize the National Security Agency or Central Intelligence Agency to provide surveillance of U.S. citizens concerning the war on terror, almost 50% of women said yes. Men who were surveyed were not so willing to allow the government the right to monitor U.S. citizens. Of those men surveyed, 56.2%...

The gender gap is now 25 years old and, according to recent polling, it is alive and well. A Democratic polling memo released yesterday found that women, who voted for President Bush last year in large numbers, have begun migrating back to their traditional home in the Democratic Party as the public's agenda has shifted from homeland security and terrorism to domestic concerns such as jobs and the economy. There has long been a gender gap between the parties, with women tending to vote Democratic in disproportionate numbers. Bush all but closed that gap last year, losing the female vote...

Security Moms are stepping up to the plate and offering a poll to visitors to their site about our borders and immigration. This group feels their mission is to help Americans fulfill the words of President Eisenhower, "Politics should be the part-time profession of every American." We think he was right. Without political sophistication, it is an under-appreciated fact that the average citizen ignores his or her solemn responsibility of citizenship in a free society; our political representatives work for us and should be taking directions from us, not the other way around. Family Security Matters aims to correct this...

US Senator John Kerry, the defeated Democratic presidental candidate, has blamed his failure to unseat President George W. Bush on the traditional advantage held by the president in wartime and his own failure to 'connect' with voters. 'Im not going to lick my wounds or hide under a rock and disappear. I'm going to learn,' Mr. Kerry told Newsweek magazine in his first interview since the November election. He disputed descriptions of his oratory as 'soporific' but appeared close to acknowledging not connecting with voters.'Ive had disappointments and I've learned to cope. I've lost friends, a marriage.' He then pointed...

POST-ELECTION MORALITY PLAY:THE LEFT CONTINUES TO DEMONSTRATE ITS UNFITNESS IN REAL TIME by Mia T, 11.09.04 HAROLD ICKES: on winning the presidency by terrorizing white women  (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) http://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.com http://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualhillary.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com missus clinton's REAL virtual office update "If you look at white women, and I think that was the key to this election, Kerry won 45% based on the exit polls--but they're generally in agreement--Kerry won 45%, Bush won 55% of white women. By contrast, Bush won only 45% of white women in 2000, so he upped is percentages by 10 points. In 1996,...

HAROLD ICKES: on winning the presidency by terrorizing white women by Mia T, 11.09.04   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) http://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.com http://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualhillary.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com missus clinton's REAL virtual office update "If you look at white women, and I think that was the key to this election, Kerry won 45% based on the exit polls--but they're generally in agreement--Kerry won 45%, Bush won 55% of white women. By contrast, Bush won only 45% of white women in 2000, so he upped is percentages by 10 points. In 1996, bill clinton won 48% of white women compared to Bob Dole's...

Only Barely In an election that the incumbent overcame a national recession and the damage that was committed economically and socially on 9/11, he should have won hands down on his reelection bid instead he won only by three percent. With the other candidate at a time of war and national emergency having been a known traitor to his country meeting secretly with the enemy while still in uniform, a man that was so vain that while in the battlefield and fellow soldiers were dying daily this man had his crew film re-enactments of missions for his future political aspirations....

Susan Barba is a Morris County Republican who voted for every GOP presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1968. Not this year. "I just feel totally unsafe with Bush in the White House," she said. "He's created more terrorism." Madeline Bradley, a registered Democrat, voted for Al Gore in the last election. She thinks John Kerry is weak on terrorism, so she's voting for President Bush. "Everything changed on Sept. 11," the Fair Lawn resident said. "Even if I disagree with President Bush on some issues, none of these things are going to matter if we all get blown up."...

The MSM and their pundits have spun this since the viewing of the OBL tape that this helps Kerry. I am what they have titled a 'security mom' and cannot take this election anymore or the propaganda being forced on us! Do they really think we are that stupid?? Are we really that stupid?? Would the American people fall for Kerry's, the DNC and MSM lies? Kerry is a man who for 20 years has voted to cut every weapon development, voted to cut support for our troops, voted to cut and gut our military and security systems. Voted to...

Is the gender gap gone? Well, no. While I've never bought into that whole Mars/Venus thing, it's pretty clear that there are still some striking differences between most men and most women. Like our salaries. And our representation in corporate boardrooms. But there is one area where the difference between men and women is rapidly disappearing. It's in how we vote. In the last several presidential elections, it's been reliably true that women have favored Democrats and men have tended to support Republicans. (This gender gap was the reason, by the way, that Bush-the-elder selected Dan Quayle as a running...

"I'm calling today because I have a theory on the undecided voters. Frankly, I think they're all like me. I'm a lifelong Democrat and I voted for Gore in 2000 and as of last week I made the choice to vote for Bush."