Shame!

January 8, 2012 – 1:09 am

I’ve never been a fan of Rick Santorum, and I hope he doesn’t win the GOP nomination, because then I’d have to vote to elect him President. But any criticism I might make of him begins and ends with his public life: his opinions and intentions regarding government policy.

Not so for liberal water-carriers Alan Colmes and Eugene Robinson, who disgraced themselves recently by jeering at Mr. Santorum and his wife for the way they handled what is surely the most sorrowful calamity that can ever befall any of us in this vale of tears: the death of a child.

Mark Steyn lets them have it, with both barrels, here.

P.S. I realize that, as Ross Douthat says here, privacy is to some extent “a luxury of moral consensus”, and that Mr. Santorum has made a career of pushing politics into the privacy of the bedroom — which is a big part of the reason I don’t support him. But mocking a family over their grief for a dead son is simply beyond the pale, I think, and in another age would have been considered evidence of ill breeding.

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8 Comments

  1. the one eyed man says

    I’m sure that Rick Santorum will be steaming mad once he finds out about this:

    http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/08/just-married-archie-comics-first-gay-character-weds-doctor-beau/

    Posted January 9, 2012 at 11:18 am | Permalink
  2. Dom says

    I forget who, but I think it was in Commentary, that a blogger noted that most doctors recommend, for the sake of the parents, especially the mother, that something like a grieving period be allows for the dead new-born, and that other children should be included.

    Posted January 9, 2012 at 7:46 pm | Permalink
  3. TheBigHenry says

    Santorum will be as shocked as anyone else who sees the posted panel.

    In the Archie Comics pic showing the gay couple holding hands, the white guy’s right hand is black and the black guy’s left hand is white.

    Posted January 9, 2012 at 8:21 pm | Permalink
  4. the one eyed man says

    I think Santorum is in an uncomfortable position after having had a three-way with two other men in the Iowa caucus results.

    If he were Jewish, he might not mind the gay character in the Archie comics so much. After all, he married a doctah.

    Posted January 9, 2012 at 8:35 pm | Permalink
  5. TheBigHenry says

    I don’t know. Exchanging vows is one thing; exchanging hands (literally) is a bit much.

    Posted January 9, 2012 at 8:42 pm | Permalink
  6. the one eyed man says

    Nothing says “I love you” like a hand job.

    Posted January 9, 2012 at 9:30 pm | Permalink
  7. Malcolm says

    From the obituary of John Goldwater, creator of Archie:

    The guiding idea, Mr. Goldwater always said, was simple. It came down to Archie. ”He’s basically a square, but in my opinion the squares are the backbone of America,” he told The New York Times in 1973. ”If we didn’t have squares we wouldn’t have strong families.”

    …In 1954, with national critics decrying brutality, vulgarity and sex in the comics, Mr. Goldwater helped found the Comics Magazine Association of America, whose Comics Code Authority persuaded magazines to voluntarily weed out offensive copy as well as ads for guns, knives and war weapons. He was president for 25 years.

    In 1973, he went further, licensing Archie for evangelical Christian messages. Although Jewish, Mr. Goldwater said the sentiments were in line with his wholesome family message.

    I wonder — what he would have thought?

    Posted January 9, 2012 at 11:38 pm | Permalink
  8. TheBigHenry says

    “I wonder – what he would have thought?”

    About the “gaiety”, the hand-color typo in the comic-strip panel, or Peter’s “hand job” quip?

    Posted January 10, 2012 at 10:05 pm | Permalink

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