Santorum

I like his metaphor because it accurately describes what he is trying to say. Throughout his essay, Santorum gives statistics and other fact based information to make his point, and this metaphor sums it all up quite nicely. Going by straight statistics, a nuclear, traditional family creates a well-adjusted child more often than any other combination. The metaphor of the planes perfectly shows this as the planes have statistics as well. One plane makes it there almost every time, like a traditional family, and one makes it there only some of the time, like the single parent family. Its truly elegant in its simplicity.