Forgetting the 'Dad' in NASCAR pitch (Ellen Goodman Alert)

Boston Globe ^ | 2/19/2004 | Ellen Goodman

[Lance Romance]

WELL NOW, that was the most dashing photo op since the president donned his flight jacket and landed on the USS Lincoln to declare mission accomplished. On Sunday, George W. took public transportation down to Daytona and buzzed the 180,000 fans in the stadium and 35 million viewers on television.

[Lance Romance]

Thankfully, CBS managed to protect our family values by rejecting an advocacy ad from MoveOn.org as too controversial. That little spot features kids working as dishwashers and garbage collectors, asking "Guess who's going to pay off President Bush's $1 trillion deficit.

Huh? It's incredible that she is even paid to write this drivel.

Bill Clinton was the master of the photo op. Not to mention his innumerable "Presidential" visits.

[cripplecreek]

And liberals cant figure out why us "ignernt rednecks" wont vote for democrats.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Ben Afleck was going to be the starter? How the hell did that happen in the first place?

[speedy]

Ellen Goodman is a museum-piece holdover of 1970s "free to be you and me" feminism. She has been whining the same old sob story for 30 years. The civilized world has moved on to better things. I'm okay, you're not okay, Ellen.

[section9]

Ah, but your missing the good news. This column is all about what Ellen believes that the NASCAR Nation should be thinking, not about her ruminations about why most NASCAR people think the way they do.

It's all about what she thinks, not about what they, the Great Unwashed, think. I can guarandamteeya that the people around John Kerry think the same way.

She hasn't a freaking clue, which is all to the good.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Notasoccermom]

"If this voter is going to swing, it better be to the party that offers his kids more than a trip around and around and around the same old track."

My kids can travel with pride in a circle any day with GWB! George, start your engine.

[Rob45and2]

As usual the Libs print what they want the truth to be rather than the truth itself. This is propaganda pure and simple.

[oh8eleven]

This column is all about what Ellen believes that the NASCAR Nation should be thinking,...
"A father's role in the family is changing. "

[Conspiracy Guy]

Wouldn't Janet Jackson have done a better job on the National Anthem than Leann Rimes (sp)?

CG

[NonValueAdded]

What a rhymes-with-witch. About as pure a hit piece as you will ever read. And she styles herself as a swing voter? Yeah, right. She would gnaw off her hand before ever voting Republican. Her bio probably claims her proudest moment is casting her vote for Teddy the K.

[elli1]

I have no idea what she was trying to say.

[Vigilantcitizen]

"But by and large, NASCAR Dad has become a shorthand for socially conservative and economically struggling white men."

Does Ms. Ellen know how much tickets cost for a NASCAR event? Yep...she's clueless.

[WILLIALAL]

"The analysts may not think of NASCAR Dads as green, but a well-oiled administration that revoked approval of the Kyoto protocols, made a scam of fuel emission standards and barely uttered a post-9/11 peep about renewable energy is offering the next generation a future as dark as the track. As Dan Becker of the Sierra Club says, the White House environmental policy "begins and ends with `Gentleman, start your engines.' "

Kyoto protocols, that says it all. A NASCAR fan's biggest concern is Kyoto Protocals? Liberals, they just don't get it. There is a reason they don't win in the south.

[cripplecreek]

Something the democrats seem to overlook is the fact that NASCAR dads are made up of around 60% men and 40% women. They seem to think no woman of average intelligence would associate with such idiots.

I got news for them, they're wrong again. My wife is a PA (physicians assistant) who for all intensive purposes is an MD who went through several years of medical school but never did an internship. We met at a race.

[Quilla]

." But by and large, NASCAR Dad has become a shorthand for socially conservative and economically struggling white men.

My son has been invited to the upcoming race in Bristol with some customers of mine. They will be traveling in a $200,000 motor home, staying in the infield, and paying a pretty penny for the priviledge. I don't see NASCAR fans as struggling economically.

[Steely Tom]

Wow, this is really total poppycock (drivel having already been taken). Ellen Goodman seems to have taken up the east-coach franchaise of Maureen Dowd-ism; her M.O. is really just the same: re-state reality through a filter of absurdly exaggerated irony. If she can get the reader to see the world through her excrement-colored glasses, she's really in the catbird seat: she can ridicule anything she wants and sound witty, letting her readers share in her bogus sense of superiority, the blind conning the blind.

When you're pathetic and don't know you're pathetic, than you're really pathetic.

(steely)

[N. Theknow]

Diarrhea of the keyboard alert!

Hello Ellen, why don't you ride with a DemocRAT and see where you wind up.

My tag line should give you a clue.

[kittymyrib]

Gee, I thought bitter, washed-up feminists such as Ellen didn't need fathers any more...that any old turkey baster would do. Don't try to sell this anti-Bush vomit, Ellen. Nobody but your liberal editors are buying it anymore.

[#3Fan]

The NASCAR Dad may like risk-taking as a spectator sport, but these days he's the guy buckling the kids in the child seats. In the same vein, he believes in national defense but doesn't want anybody conning his sons and daughters into combat over missing weapons of mass destruction.

I bet she's wrong about this. It seems to me that the people that most support the military (and the steps Bush has taken to defend this country), Nascar people, would have the most kids in the military, or at least a good percentage relative to other demographic groups, especially soccer moms.

[beckysueb]

Ben Affleck sure looked like he was respectful to Laura Bush in the picture of him shaking hands with her. I guess they aren't so smart mouthed and nasty when they are surrounded with Bush's adoring fans. These people better be careful about their condescending attitudes about NAASCAR and its fans. They are solidly behind Bush and were before his visit. They just can't stand the idea that anybody, much less a huge group like racing fans would like Bush. My reaction to this article is eat your heart out!