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Security Moms Tilting Toward President Bush
The New York Sun | October 15, 2004 | ALICIA COLON

Posted on 10/15/2004 8:57:05 AM PDT by AnnaSASsyFR

Security Moms Tilting Toward President Bush

ALICIA COLON acolon@nysun.com

During the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, the term “soccer moms” was used to describe predominantly white, suburban, middle- and upper-middle-class, college-educated women with children.The economy was a key factor in those elections, and those women tended to support the Democratic nominee. Post-9/11, those women are now being dubbed “security moms” and are leaning toward reelecting President Bush.

Wednesday night’s final presidential debate covered the domestic issues, and the focus in the swing states is still the economy, but many women are finding that their priorities have changed dramatically since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Mary Reilly, a Staten Islander, sent me an e-mail about a new grassroots group called SecurityMoms4Bush.The founder writes on its Web page, www.moms4bush.com, the reasons she decided to form a group to help reelect the president. A Westchester mother of only a few months when September 11 attacks occurred, she found her life turned upside-down by the attacks, which damaged the security of her family.

She writes: “Personally, during a normal election year, I would be right up there on my soap box. This year is so very different.The issues outside of our fight on terror are not as important in the big picture today.

“You see, if we do not take the proper steps to win this war on terror now, the domestic issues will never matter.If we do not take steps now to prevent as best we can future terrorist attacks in the U.S., who cares if we have campaign finance laws? If we don’t show these terrorists that we are the superpower, that we are now, and that they can’t mess with us now, they will win.”

The group is organizing rallies in seven states tomorrow and Sunday. Two will be in Staten Island and one will be in New Jersey. Check the Web site for locations.

Unfortunately, the site does not name the woman who founded the group, but her letter makes a point that resonates with many mothers concerned with their family’s safety. She writes:

“We cannot risk change at this time because of domestic issues. These issues will not matter one iota, if we are being attacked by terrorists. Let’s keep our country safe and then we can all come out of our respective corners and hash out those other issues we may have a passion to fight. We need to be courageous.

“We need to remember 9/11.”

As for the reason she has decided to vote for Mr. Bush and not Senator Kerry,she writes that Mr. Bush has the determination to do what is “best for our country, our future, our children’s future, his children’s future.”

There are also many voters, however, who feel that Mr. Kerry can do a better job and that his Vietnam experience, rather than his 20 years in the Senate, makes him more qualified than Mr. Bush, who served in the National Guard.

Anyone who aspires to the highest position in the country must be prepared to undergo scrutiny, but I doubt Mr. Kerry ever thought that his reputation would be sullied so thoroughly as it was by the book “Unfit for Command.” I ordered my copy from Amazon.com, since it’s hard to find in Manhattan bookstores, and it’s my opinion that the book diminished its authors, John O’Neil and Jerome Corsi, by including their doubts about Mr. Kerry’s Purple Heart honors. Whether they were deserved or, as the authors allege, they weren’t, Mr. Kerry was in harm’s way and could have been killed during the four months he was in country. By the same token, young Mr. Bush was in danger every time during the four years he flew the F-102 fighter jet. Six National Guardsmen died in accidents over the years, including one during the time Mr. Bush was in the Guard. I believe that both Mr. Kerry and Mr. Bush were brave young men.

But Mr. Kerry’s behavior after the war and his record in the Senate demonstrate that he has no real love for the military or any war. In the epilogue of the book “The New Soldier,” Mr. Kerry argues about the conditions that must be met before he would ever go to war again.The last line reads:

“I will not go unless the people of this country decide for themselves that we must all of us go.”

That is not the voice of a leader. It’s 30 years later, and Mr. Kerry is still waiting for others to decide what he should do in the middle of a war.

That’s not very reassuring to a security or a soccer mom in 2004.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bush; elections; gwb2004; moms; moms4bushcom; security; securitymoms; securitymoms4bush; vote; womensvote
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More evidence that Security Moms exist. Thank God!

I know my family thinks I don't exist these days! I keep telling them I'll be back November 3rd! Being a grassroots organization co-founder keeps me working 24/7 to get George W. Bush re-elected! www.gowisp04.org.

Our group has been working very closely with Nancy Kennon's group, Moms For Bush, www.moms4bush.com. Believe me...our families and friends will tell you how real we are. They may not see us, though. We are firmly attached to our lap tops!!!

Co-founder, WISP - Women in Support of the President

1 posted on 10/15/2004 8:57:06 AM PDT by AnnaSASsyFR
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To: AnnaSASsyFR

You mean the mythical security moms.


2 posted on 10/15/2004 8:58:31 AM PDT by Elpasser
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To: Elpasser
"You mean the mythical security moms."

Shhhhh.... they are part of the October Surprise!

3 posted on 10/15/2004 9:03:07 AM PDT by bcoffey (Bush/Cheney: Real men taking charge, talking straight, telling the truth.)
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To: AnnaSASsyFR

Anna, I'm getting so confused. I just read your other post and was convinced this was a myth...... ;)


5 posted on 10/15/2004 9:05:28 AM PDT by Defiant1
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To: AnnaSASsyFR
Repeated polling data has shown that security moms are nothing more than a media creation. It just sounds good so they ran with it (sounds like dan rather?)
6 posted on 10/15/2004 9:07:11 AM PDT by drangundsturm
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To: AnnaSASsyFR
As well they should be.....
7 posted on 10/15/2004 9:10:55 AM PDT by b4its2late (John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: AnnaSASsyFR

Any woman with an intellect greater than that of a doorknob supports Bush.


8 posted on 10/15/2004 9:14:29 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (No one notices the water until the well runs dry.)
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To: AnnaSASsyFR

Women got Clinton elected, twice. They'd better smarten up this time or I'm going to start a campaign to demand competency test requirements for any woman can vote. LOL


9 posted on 10/15/2004 9:14:52 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Elpasser

Bump from a soccer security mom........


10 posted on 10/15/2004 9:15:32 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind (Poor John Kerry, he can't help it. He was born with a silver flip-flop in his mouth.)
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To: AnnaSASsyFR

A rally this weekend in New Jersey huh? That's great. The Prez will be there Monday. NJ is in play. So.....


C'mon all you New Jersey Freepers, make political hay out of the events of the next few days. Let's win New Jersey.


11 posted on 10/15/2004 9:25:02 AM PDT by no dems (Hey, hey. Ho Ho. Kerry sign Form 1 - 8 - 0.)
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To: Elpasser

I really don't believe this is a myth. I remember distinctly after 9/11 when the Prez went to Yankee Stadium, Rosie O'Donnell was there and EVEN SHE said (re: President Bush): "I love this guy."

I think there is a "Security Mom" vote out there.


12 posted on 10/15/2004 9:27:31 AM PDT by no dems (Hey, hey. Ho Ho. Kerry sign Form 1 - 8 - 0.)
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To: AnnaSASsyFR; MeekOneGOP; Mo1; Brad's Gramma; Gabz; crushkerry; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; ...
BTTT


SecurityMoms4Bush

13 posted on 10/15/2004 9:29:08 AM PDT by EdReform (Have you seen FAHRENHYPE 9/11? - www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240926/posts)
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That's interesting, considering Rosie O'Donnell funded the MOB's tv ad that played on CNN. You know MOB (Mothers w/O Brains!)


14 posted on 10/15/2004 9:31:47 AM PDT by AnnaSASsyFR (www.gowisp04.org)
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The economy was a key factor in those elections, and those women tended to support the Democratic nominee. Post-9/11, those women are now being dubbed “security moms” and are leaning toward reelecting President Bush.

Is this a permanent shift in thinking? The article implies that these women who have taken a very vocal and strong stand (and I applaud them for it) seem to vote which ever way the wind blows. This election they're "security moms". Previously they were "soccer moms". Will they portray something different in '08?

It seems to me that core values are core values and these so called "security moms" have always had the same values they have today:

honest hard working women with heads on their shoulders and conservative values in their heart.
15 posted on 10/15/2004 9:34:03 AM PDT by elmore
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To: drangundsturm
Repeated polling data has shown that security moms are nothing more than a media creation. It just sounds good so they ran with it (sounds like dan rather?)

Really? You have a link to these repeated polls?

16 posted on 10/15/2004 9:42:39 AM PDT by Joe Miner
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

Unfortunately, here in Ithaca, we have many women who do not have intellects greater than that of a doorknob.

Thank God for the rest of the country.


17 posted on 10/15/2004 9:43:54 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Peach

I honestly believe that there ought to be a competency test for ANY person to vote.

(Of course, I also believe that any person directly getting money from the government - employee or direct beneficiary - similarly ought to be forcibly "recused", as it were, from voting)

[Did I ever tell you I'm not a very popular person?]


18 posted on 10/15/2004 9:48:04 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: AnnaSASsyFR

The Beslan massacre was the second 9/11 for mothers of school-age children. The MSM is clueless about this. At the back-to-school night at our school, all the parents wanted to talk about with the principal was school security. Moms in my neighborhood talk about it all the time at the bus stop after we put our kids on the bus. We know that only President Bush will get the terrorists before they can come here and produce another Beslan at one of our schools. I'm convinced that Beslan was the most important event of this campaign.


19 posted on 10/15/2004 9:51:05 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (Proud to be a Reagan Alumna!)
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To: AnnaSASsyFR

Soccer Bump! Security Bump! Mom Bump! = W Bump!!!


You go girl!


20 posted on 10/15/2004 10:10:47 AM PDT by califamily4W (Now is the time, this is the place, you are the one...do something!)
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