Colmes jumps the shark

  There are Liberals and then there are LIberals.
  Bob Beckel's a bit hard to take at times but, in general, he's a likable guy whose opinions differ from conservatives.
  Kirsten Powers, Judy Miller seem to be fairly solid, reasonable people.
  I actually liked listening to the late Lynn Samuels, at least for a little while at a time.
  Juan Williams is a principled man. He's out of our mainstream, but he's principled and kind and not taken to ad hominem attacks.
  Alan Colmes, before this, was not all that unpleasant to watch as a commenter on Fox. He's grown increasingly mean and shrill unfortunately.
  Now he's gone too far to ever entertain his opinions again in civil conversation.
  Naturally the knives are being sharpened for Rick Santorum, since he's moving up in the polls.
  Colmes is attempting to do to Santorum what the Left did to Thomas, to Bork, to Cain and to Palin, by, in this case, discrediting the Santorum family's reaction to the loss of their child.
  Legal Insurrection has comments on this; Rich Lowry does a good job defending Santorum.
 
  Suffering the loss of a child, no matter how young the child or the parents, is a pain unmeasured and unlessened by time.
  Santorum, who's been criticized for saying that "suffering is a part of life" and "not a bad thing" presumably because of its propensity to encourage growth and strength, chose to bring the nearly viable-for-life baby home rather than have it incinerated or sent to a morgue.
  Is not this choice similar, in ways, to our society's current preference to go to hospice rather than die in the clinical setting of a hospital?
  What gives the state, in this case Alan Colmes, the right to say what is "normal" and what is not in grieving a lost child?
  The professional sterility of viewing the child as the "20 week old fetus" as opposed to a nearly viable-for-life human being is enough to disgust any parent.
  Our society is very open about everything that happens in our lives. Every politician with the exception of Barack Obama can expect to be grilled about events in his or her lives that have changed them, altered their stance on issues or even reflected an opinion about which the "journalist" might be curious.
  Because of that very open nature, everyone knows about everything in a politician's life (Except Barack Obama's grades, birth certificate, work record, curious social security number.....) Thus conservatives are expected to comment on private events in their lives; conversely, apparently it's okay to ridicule a Trig Palin or a baby Santorum in the interest of politics.
  If Sarah Palin carries Trig from event to event, she's accused of "using" the child because of his Down Syndrome for political gain, not mainstreaming him and not normalizing the public regarding Down Syndrome children.
  If Rick Santorum objects to his dead child being referred to as a "20 week old fetus" who will be whisked away in a sanitary facility to an unknown place, he's being a political opportunist and a weirdo who is "playing" with a "dead baby."
  Liberals should be honest when they criticize people like Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum for their parental choices.
  What they're really making fun of is the choice to respect the life of an "imperfect" child rather than dealing with it by chuting it down The Big Flue.
  It'd be nice if we could disagree but still respect each others' opinions, particularly with regard to life itself.

Nilsson from Web MD 20 weeks