Every time I hear the term "security mom" I feel like cringing

[fujiyama]

I'm tired of hearing of "security moms", "nascar dads", "soccer moms", and other such bullshit.

Guess what? We have individual voters. They vote on a set of issues - national security being one of them. Every sensible, loving parent wants their child safe.

So of course, national security and homeland security is important. The media is just trying to make it as though there is a new group of paranoid middle aged women that are afraid of brown people and "ARabs" blowing them up. Whoop dee fuckin doo.

Anyways. I'm done ranting.

[stellanoir]

1. I feel the same way.

I often wonder how secure this so called demographic would feel to know that their little darlings will ultimately be drafted to fight and will possibly be sacrificed in *'s never ending "war on terror."

I've never felt more insecure about my country's or my son's future than I have felt since Dec 12, 2000.

[booksenkatz]

2. Hell, the 'soccer moms' here were arguing the other day

about abortion! At an outdoor event for kids. I stayed out of it, it wasn't the time or place. So I, too, find the labels amusing.

As the mother of a 5-year-old boy, the best thing you can do to make me feel secure about his future is to get the grinning, kill-happy disaster monkey and his Forever Wars out of the White House and vote in an honorable, intelligent man who understands foreign and domestic policy.

[bowens43]

3. What makes me cringe is the idea that bush should be trusted

with security over Kerry. The idea is absurd. All we have to do is look at what happened in the last few years to see that bush has no idea how to protect our country.

[ixion]

4. since we're talking about phrases that make us cringe: 'homeland security'

that one has always done it for me. To Naziesque. That and any title with 'Czar' in it when used in the context of contemporary US govt.

[gcomeau]

5. I've been hitting some political forums post-debate...

And one of these "security moms" tried to take me on when I posted over on Liberty News Forum about how Bush was completely disconnected from reality if he actually thought he knew how hard it was in Iraq from WATCHING TV.

She was completely. fucking. clueless.

The exchange thus far has makes an entertaining read. The "security mom" is "LadyLiberty01"

http://www.libertynewsforum.com/libertynewsforumcgi/YaBB/YaBB.cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1096687126

EDIT: Shoot, the link doesn't copy in properly. The thread is "The war president knows what war is like"

-Grant

[Peanut Gallery]

6. Me too

It bugs me for several reasons:

* Voters deserve a lot more than cutesy labels and fourth-grade rhetoric (i.e., "Bush is America's Daddy and he will keep us safe" - let's all go get our blankeys and suck our thumbs now)

* I'm not sure if it's a real demographic or just another manipulative marketing ploy.

* If "Security Moms" are a real demographic, I wonder how they can be so intellectually uncurious as to take everything this administration says and does at face value.

[Obamarama]

7. "Security Moms" means absolutely nothing ....

What mother DOESN'T want her children to be safe at ANY time, during ANY presidency?

The term is being hijacked by the Rovian operatives to try to win over the femaale voters. Psychology of the argument is that by calling Bush supporting mothers "Security Moms", it will somehow create dissonance with moms who support Kerry, or even better those who are "undecided". It's a much more subtle form of Bush's post 9/11 warning: If you don't stand with us, then you are against us.