Just when you think the nasty elements of the political right wing in this country couldn't stoop any lower, they do. Last week extreme conservatives pontificated viciously from the depths of the political ooze, lambasting a 12-year-old Maryland boy, Graeme Frost, who delivered a radio address for the Democrats after his parents went public with how the State Children's Health Insurance Program helped them after a 2004 car crash left two of their children comatose.

We in Bowie are certainly familiar with right-wingers. We have our share of them. They have been regular contributors to the Readers' views section of these pages,...