Goodbye Soccer Mom, Hello 'Security Mom' [and they are going GOP]

Time ^ | May 25, 2003 | Karen Tumulty

[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.

[ohioWfan]

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??

[My2Cents]

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."

[My2Cents]

The obligatory photo:

[My2Cents]

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.

[ohioWfan]

Ah yes......a REAL man!

Now HE'S not afraid to let women vote! :o)

[My2Cents]

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.

[ohioWfan]

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.

[My2Cents]

Clinton issues don't seem quite as important when truck drivers in Michigan are Al Qaeda operatives.

BINGO!!

[My2Cents]

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!"

[ewing]

You may have something there!

[ohioWfan]

Love it! Better choose wisely, though!

(Some of them might turn into airheaded soccer moms!)

[glory]

No, it's not just you.

[glory]

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.
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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.

[My2Cents]

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."

[glory]

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.

[glory]

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?

[glory]

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.

[glory]

Betty,
I saw that bare out with my grandfather and grandmother in England. Both died as a result.

[hchutch]

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.

[AlGone2001]

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.