Conservative love...

Cultural leftists, on the other hand, suggest that any attempt to tame or channel emotions is somehow inauthentic — an approach that leads to all-too-authentic tragedy, as with the beautiful, noble, emotion-ruled Anna, crushed on the train tracks by the unstoppable locomotive of fate.
--A very strained Michael Medved

Democrats are Anna Karenina, Republicans are Konstantin Levin. Thus Republicans indirectly mirror Tolstoy while Democrats represent the modern manifestation of Russian aristocrats. Funny that; I thought we were all Marxists.

Update: Happy SAINT Valentine's day.