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Goodbye Soccer Mom, Hello 'Security Mom' [and they are going GOP]
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| May 25, 2003
| Karen Tumulty
Posted on 05/25/2003 7:58:04 PM PDT by ewing
Republican pollster David Winston was the first to identify the shift from Soccer Mom to Security Mom and he warns 'What these women are looking for is solutions to make their families and children safer.
It's about solutions, it's not about partisan bickering'
Democratic political consulant Rachel Gorlin agrees, 'We cant criticize what the Bush Administration is doing unless we make it clear that the criticism is toward a new and improved approach -we are turning people off.'
It is that kind of impatience with point scoring politics that nettles women like 31 year old Stacy McDaniel, who stockpiles water and canned goods in San Diego, and plans an exit route when she goes to a ball game.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2004; 911; electionpresident; homelandsecurity; rip; securitymom; soccermom; time
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To: HighWheeler
I'm not bashing 'guys,' silly boy. I'm bashing sexism.
I love REAL men......you know, the kind that don't feel the need to put women down to make themselves feel superior??
101
posted on
05/26/2003 1:44:56 PM PDT
by
ohioWfan
(BUSH 2004!!! Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
To: ewing
9/11 has apparently closed the "Gender Gap" for Republicans. What's going on now is that the DemonicRATS are suffering from a "Flight Suit Gap."
102
posted on
05/27/2003 12:26:45 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: ohioWfan
The obligatory photo:
103
posted on
05/27/2003 12:31:32 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: HighWheeler
Only 40% of men voted for the Needy One, and yet the media persists that it's the Republicans who have a "gender gap" problem.
104
posted on
05/27/2003 12:33:47 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: My2Cents
Ah yes......a REAL man!
Now HE'S not afraid to let women vote! :o)
105
posted on
05/27/2003 12:48:34 PM PDT
by
ohioWfan
(BUSH 2004!!! Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
To: ohioWfan
Single women are the ones with the tendency to vote for sleazebags and liars.Correct. Women who (sadly) have a history of bad judgment and poor relationships end up making similarly bad judgments and poor decisions in the voting booth.
106
posted on
05/27/2003 1:07:43 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: My2Cents
Interesting.......I have always attributed that statistic to single women's wanting to be cared for, and receive cradle to grave entitlements that the left offers.
It might well be, as you suggest, that they are just plain incapable of making wise decisions in any area of life.
107
posted on
05/27/2003 1:12:34 PM PDT
by
ohioWfan
(BUSH 2004!!! Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
To: ewing
Clinton issues don't seem quite as important when truck drivers in Michigan are Al Qaeda operatives. BINGO!!
108
posted on
05/27/2003 1:16:19 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: ohioWfan
After citing that the majority of married women voted for George W. Bush in 2000, Michael Medved commented (paraphrasing), "You single guys who want to do something for the Republican Party and for the betterment of the nation...Go out and get married!"
109
posted on
05/27/2003 1:22:54 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: My2Cents
You may have something there!
110
posted on
05/27/2003 1:24:11 PM PDT
by
ewing
To: My2Cents
Love it! Better choose wisely, though!
(Some of them might turn into airheaded soccer moms!)
111
posted on
05/27/2003 1:24:55 PM PDT
by
ohioWfan
(BUSH 2004!!! Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
To: Torie
No, it's not just you.
112
posted on
05/27/2003 1:32:43 PM PDT
by
glory
To: HighWheeler
However, the fact that these Soccer Moms are so fickle, so self centered, so shallow, so short sighted, and so reactionary in their voting habits leads me to understand why the Founding Fathers refused to let women vote.
>>
If you look back at some of the debates among women prior to their right to vote, you will notice this was a concern of WOMEN who were against their right to vote as well. Smart women back then knew that not all women were smart and that most were self-centered and silly. Times have not changed all that much.
113
posted on
05/27/2003 1:36:14 PM PDT
by
glory
To: ohioWfan
My wife was something of a flowerchild in the '60s/early '70s. We were both raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. While she was reading the autobiography of Malcolm X, and Rachel Carson, I was reading "National Review." Today, she's more conservative than I am, and is unashamedly a "Bushbabe."
114
posted on
05/27/2003 1:37:34 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: patriciaruth
Not true--know quite a few union guys who are "secretly" voting the conservative ticket. Since they are losing jobs anyway and it's evident the union offers them little to no protection anymore on that front, more are concerned with preserving their heritage and values now instead of whether they'll get a copay-less insurance, of course, you'll never hear them admit it to the union bullheaded types you mentioned.
115
posted on
05/27/2003 1:39:04 PM PDT
by
glory
To: OREALLY
Oh cool your jets, I am a "soccer mom" in so much as my children play the game. I don't take that term personally, I know it applies to a certain type of person who doesn't take the time to think about issues deeper than "he's handsome, I think he'll make a good president".
BTW, I would gladly give back my informed right to vote so that 53% of airheads who did vote for Clinton couldn't have.
If you think it's only men who thought this way, I suggest you look at some of the debates around the suffrage time. MANY upon MANY women were AGAINST women having the right to vote and they were not mere puppets, their arguments have come to bear fruit. I suppose though you think those women, and I, are all sexists if we say that many women don't think carefully or deeply about the issues?
116
posted on
05/27/2003 1:49:04 PM PDT
by
glory
To: ostephani
Agree with everything you posted here, especially about not trusting a female who is pro-abort, particularly one who has carried a baby to term.
117
posted on
05/27/2003 1:51:16 PM PDT
by
glory
To: BigWaveBetty
Betty,
I saw that bare out with my grandfather and grandmother in England. Both died as a result.
118
posted on
05/27/2003 1:52:46 PM PDT
by
glory
To: gcruse; Torie
Nice thinking, but the reality is that the Presidents get the credit/blame for the economy. One can quickly lose the rent money by overestimating the intelligence of the "Security Mom" crowd.
119
posted on
05/27/2003 1:55:51 PM PDT
by
hchutch
(America came, America saw, America liberated; as for those who hate us, Oderint dum Metuant)
To: ewing
The soccer moms were "security moms."
Bill Cinton lied to them about the economy and then took credit for it after it rebounded on its own.
They were security driven all along. The real term that should be used for the ladies trend now is "safety moms."
In this debate, the democrats lose. They've always had a poor history of scaling back defense and national security to get more of money elsewhere to bribe us. It seems that the truth has come back to haunt all of us.
We need to constatntly remind them that Bill Clintoon was offered bin Laden, but turned him down: all in pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize.
120
posted on
05/27/2003 2:00:07 PM PDT
by
AlGone2001
(If liberals must lie to advance their agenda, why is liberalism good for me?)
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