David Strom: Do Conservatives Hate Their Children?

Who should John McCain pick as his running mate? If you listen to the Man-Made-Global-Warming proponents, conservatives must be a pretty callous lot. In fact, they must hate their own children. After all, according to these advocates we "deniers" are selling out the future of the planet just to get a few bucks. That's funny, because according to the research available conservatives are much more fertile than liberals - in fact, almost 50% more likely to have children. Yet we know that it is conservatives and not liberals who are most likely to doubt the arguments for man made global warming. And by far they are less likely to call for massive intervention in the economy to prevent the "inevitable" destruction of the biosphere by mankind's profligate use of fossil fuels. What's going on here? Are conservatives really so... [read full story]