Bush Sells Veto Well

President Bush's veto was the right thing to do -- and as this excerpt from the Washington Post's coverage points out -- he did a pretty good job of selling it, too:

Bush addressed the issue in the White House's East Room surrounded by two dozen families -- including one from Alexandria, another from Ellicott City -- who adopted frozen embryos not wanted by other couples and used the embryos to have children."These boys and girls are not spare parts," Bush said. "They remind us
of what is lost when embryos are lost in the name of research."

This issue is hard for social conservatives because we often end up using logic to make our point, while the other side uses emotion to talk about how this research could help people with diseases (this is problematic because in politics, emotion trumps logic.) By addressing this issue with real-life examples of how important this veto is, Bush is doing his part to win the PR war behind the culture war.