Tom Delay "murdered" father

Tom Delay's father, Charles, suffered multiple injuries when he was accidentally catapulted into a tree in 1988. The elder Delay's condition deteriorated, with multiple organ failure rapidly ensuing. No matter what steps doctors took, he was going to die, soon. Bearing this in mind, the family decided the Delay patriarch's life should not be prolonged. He was allowed to die.

Compassionate, lefty, academic blogger Tim Dunlop posts:

To paraphrase what Tom DeLay has been saying about Terri Schiavo's husband all week, Tom DeLay helped "murder" his own father. Of course, the circumstances were completely different. Right.

This has been a dirty political game right from the start and Tom DeLay has been at the forefront of it. Funny he didn't mention his Father when he was spouting off about the "culture of life" and smearing everyone in sight.
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Pity he hasn't extended the same understanding and rights to privacy to Michael Schiavo as he will no doubt now claim for himself. What a creep.

I assume TD posts such crap to generate controversy – he does credit Atrios with the link to the LA Times article – in an effort to increase his readership. Perhaps this is what TD really thinks. No matter, the Delay and Schiavo situations have passing similarity but are not comparable.

Charles Delay was going to die soon, no matter what; Terri Schiavo could live on indefinitely.

Delay was being kept alive by mechanical means, with constant, intensive medical support; Schiavo was fed by a tube and requires only basic, hospice level care.

The Delay family made an apparently unanimous decision to allow the family patriarch to die; Michael Schiavo decided, against the wishes of Terri's blood relations, to hasten her death.

The Delay family did not draw attention to their decision, there was no need; the Schindlers went public in an effort to save their daughter.

Tom Delay may well be a creep but it's not because he's violated anyone's right to privacy: the case went public long before he got involved. Rather, it's Tim Dunlop who's the creep: he's the one trying to drag the very private – not to mention irrelevant – Delay family tragedy into the Schiavo debate.

Liberals know no shame when it comes to playing the dirty political game.