How about a political game for Saturday?

In politics, emotions always win. That's just the way it is. When you scream "for the children," that's a winner every single time. Don't believe me? Look how much money is spent on education and look at the zero results that money is getting us.

However, Democrats win because they're using emotions. With the Iraq war, look at how the issues are framed. Pro-war people talk about things that are saved and good -- but anti-war people talk about the "innocent" deaths. Anti-war wins. Typically conservatives tend to use logic and facts to present their ideas. Typically socialists and leftists use emotions.

So here's the game:

See how many emotional arguments you can come up with to support genuinely conservative positions. You can't outright lie, but you can really, really, really stretch the truth a lot to play on people's emotions. Who can come up with the most heart-wrenching reason that will convince millions of people to absolutely support your position because to do otherwise would kill babies (or something equally bad)?

Feel free to give it a shot here in the comments or post something on your blog, should you have one. If you post elsewhere, please post a link to your post in the comments here, since the trackbacks aren't working.

Have at it!

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