Starting to Sound Like an MO

As fond as those on the left are of saying that there isn't any black and white, only shades of grey, it would seem that this is only true when it suits their purposes. A case in point is this article in the LA Times, DeLay's Own Tragic Crossroads. How convenient it is that one of the most vocal opponents of removing Terri Schiavo's feeding tube once had to face a somewhat similar situation himself. This is one of the favorite ploys of the left. To find a member of the opposition that may have acted in a way that can be construed as hypocritical. In this case, the victim of the attack is Tom DeLay. According to the article, Charles DeLay, the Majority Whip's father, suffered a massive head injury in an accident at the family's home. Ultimately, the family decided to remove him from his respirator. They pulled the plug. By this reasoning, Tom DeLay is the worst of all sinners, a hypocrite. How dare he oppose the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube when he, himself, condoned the same thing in the case of his father. You either are for allowing someone to "die with dignity", or you are against it, black and white, or, worse, you are a hypocrite.
The problem with this logic, however, is that it is a straw man. No one is arguing that it is never acceptable to "pull the plug." They are just arguing that it is immoral to do so in this case. In the case of Charles DeLay, his condition was worsening, his organs were failing, he was on a dialysis machine. This seems to me to be completely different from the Schiavo case, where Terri was stable, until her feeding tube was removed. But that, it seems, doesn't matter. Things aren't always shades of grey, sometimes they are black and white.
The writers also found another topic they could cry "hypocrite" on - tort reform. Apparently, after the death of Charles Delay, the family sued the maker of a coupling that the family felt was defective. But Tom DeLay is an advocate of tort reform. He wants to make it more difficult for people to file "frivolous, parasitic lawsuits." I wonder if it might have possible occurred to the authors that Tom DeLay did not consider this to be a "frivolous, parasitic lawsuit." Again, no one is advocating that all product liability lawsuits be eliminated, just the "frivolous, parasitic" ones.