Using socialism as some sort of buzzword is the strategy of idiots. Everyone is socialist to some degree, except perhaps failed states like Somalia and now Syria. We have a socialized defensive system, we all pay in and we are defended as a group. The alternative is no army and you defend your house with your won weapons. We have socialized police, this was not always the case. Historically police have been hired entities for those who could afford them. We socialize fire services, libraries, and all sorts of other things. At issue is not socialism vs capitalism, but how much balance there is between the two.
But haters gotta hate, and idiots gotta be.
That's not socialism, that's being smart. Socialism is the centralization of an economy and its production. Armies, police and fire by necessity fall under the control of government, that isn't socialism and we won't let you redefine the term to make it seem innocuous. Health care, food production, energy production, manufacturing and pretty much everything else are best left to markets, where the weak producers fall by the wayside and the successful are rewarded. There are example after example of socialist failures throughout history and even in modern times.