A post by Pat
The Republicans are using coded messages again.
According to Steven Wells, “hockey mom” is a deliberate political coinage calculated to appeal to the imagery of tough, uncomplaining, ready to bang the boards and drop the gloves, as opposed to effete Euros shying away from contact.
He explains the difference between “hockey mom” and “soccer mom” and why the first appeals to Republican voters.
Palin the ‘hockey mom’ is just an exercise in political branding
When gnarled former PoW John Sidney McCain III announced Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, we were introduced to a new and instantly ubiquitous phrase – “hockey mom”.
“A hockey mom is more American,” says Philadelphia columnist Liz Spikol. “A lot of Americans are suspicious of soccer, and still believe it connotes the foreign. Whereas hockey is as GOP-North American as a fetus on posterboard.” [charming — p]
So why has the Republican candidate for vice-president worked so hard at branding herself with the hockey mom label? Of course it might simply be that she’s genuinely immersed in ice-hockey culture. The thug who impregnated her 17-year-old daughter…certainly is.
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And there, I think – in a sweary nutshell – is the reason Palin is so keen to be seen as a hockey mom. In the minds of the effete conservative elite who run the Republican party, the hockey-playing yob who got Palin’s daughter pregnant represents an idealised form of American masculinity – unthinking, brutish, willfully ignorant, easy to manipulate, unquestioningly patriotic, proudly reactionary, quick to respond to any perceived threat with overwhelming violence – and very unlikely to ever vote Democrat. Or – by extension – play soccer.
Mr. Wells should be sent to the penalty box — in a straightjacket.
This so idiotic and self-righteous I can’t even come up with the words. Palin’s a hockey mom because…her kids play hockey. Strangely enough, hockey tends to be more popular than soccer in places where ice is more common for more of the year than grassy fields.
Ooooh, thanks, Pat S. As the soccer mom I am and PROUD TO BE, Steven Wells is so off base it can’t even be addressed. Dave J is right; it is only the difference between ice and non-ice states. Maybe Seven Wells hasn’t been to a school since football and surfing reigned?
My daughter is now a senior at the #1 nationwide high school for (public, private & parochial schools’) GIRLS soccer! And, not a one is a Euro, maybe some Euro-descendants (which we Irish don’t claim). There’s even one Jewish girl who convinced her parents she had to go with her middle school soccer teammates to their high school selection – a Catholic school WITH (are you ready?) a JROTC!!
I say, you go girl, Sarah (and Bristol and Willow and Piper)!
Now, THAT’S spin. lol
I love the brand Hockey Mom. I’m drunk on Sarah Palin and it’s all good. You know what I mean. Sarah Reagan…It’s morning again.
Hockey Mom v. TROJAN HORSE
Welcome Pat S. and hello to all.
Pat S,
I do stray slightly from your initial post but please indulge my proactive post.
Because words matter so much and because people say what’s in their thoughts here’s a direct quote by Obama from his acceptance speech,
“I AM NOT A TROJAN HORSE.”
When he said that, at first I thought, well now we’re at least on the same page because I think you (BHO) are. What makes him say a thing like that? What and who are inside that gift from the gods that Obama has built?
You can ponder that he’s been accused and wants to flat out reject the idea or, you might think he’s conflicted. There is no doubt that the idea was loud enough in his head that he felt compelled to address it out loud in his acceptance speech. Did his poker face reveal a tell? Did he betray an earlier intention? Would Joe Biden say, I am not a Trojan horse? Would Hillary, John Edwards or Al Gore? Are we going to elect him to find out what he means? Obama has a dialogue about being a Trojan horse inside him and out. Does he struggle or is he resolved?
Maverick War Hero + Hockey Mom
Racial Healer > TROJAN HORSE + Partisan Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair
While the spaghetti is still flying, I think spaghetti with some Trojan Horse in it can stick to the wall.
He’s a quiz. Which presidential candidate said,
“I AM NOT A CROOK.”?
BTW, Sarah is swell.
Hmm, wonder how many teeth he has left after the boss shows him the new updated stock price? Bet he’s pretty big on hockey now!
Effete elite? Ya, sucks to be you pal! HA, ha, ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
HOT!!!!!!
Hey Tammy,
Am I allowed to use the word dumbass? I wanted to use it in my last post but was worried that it might not pass. Just curious.
Rob
as someone who was raised by what passed in 60s america for a ‘ ‘hockey mom'( irish married into a french/french canadian northeastern family. i learned to ice skate before i could ride a bike)i can say i find it quite hard to be insulted by the characterization. i was what only could be described as an ‘effete euro shying from contact’ even at 5 years old. but i never complained and its my mother who taught me how to fight- figuring out quite early as mothers do that i’d need the practice. the canadian female members of the family- about as hockey mom as you can get- were capable of hunting and dressing deer and all had had run in with bears – an oddity in america but part of survival, day to day life the further north you go.i would mess with none of these women. they were entirely capable of cleaning your clock . you did not f*** with them.
as i went on the high school and college and was first exposed to the phenomenon of suburban soccer mothers and their shuttling and molly coddling of children i was fascinated. being poor and urban, connected to poor and rural and northern children like myself did for themselves or naught. my mother was too busy working to survive and i couldn’t be what i saw as indulged.
i think i have only benefitted from being taught so young to be responsible for myself and to survive. my grandmother used to say the weaker the men are the stronger the women have to be and there’s not much tougher than a hockey mom at the end of a gun protecting her cubs.
WOW. Somebody get that man a new tin foil hat to wear.
BTW – speaking as a former hockey KID, the difference between being a hockey KID and a soccer kid is that you look like less of a pansy when you stop to buy a drink on the way to practice.
Answer to the question
Who said I am not a crook ?
Richard Nixon
do I get a Trojan Horse statuette ? for the dashboard of my Forester ? lol
Keep on playing the game of journalistic limbo. How low can they go?
Thanks Pat for exposing more of the lunacy that goes on in the mentally disturbed mind of the left. This shows how our Sarah has the left in total desperation. It’s humorous to think how much time and effort Mr. Wells spent working on this fantasy but it’s also sad that he could have spent his time educating himself by reading ” The New Thought Police ”
The difference between a hockey mom and a soccer mom ? What your kid chooses to play.
If you look up “dumbass” in the dictionary, you’ll find a picture of Steven Wells.
(Thanks for checking Rob!)
Gross misconduct by the media here. They’re out of the game.
FWIW, for those of you not overly familiar with the British press, this is exactly what one would expect from the Guardian, which is the paper of the left elite. It used to be used the most reliably pro-Labour Party paper until Blair took “New Labour” rightwards, but even under more “Old Labour” Brown, the Guardian is well to the left of the center of the Labour Party.