Life was meant to be taken with a grain of ...anything you choose So very often producers, directors and actors can foist there political thoughts on you in a very biased way in these types of shows. However in the case of Boston Legal (with a cow's tongue-in-cheek)they have arrived at a very smart balance.
A crazy conservative, afflicted with every brain numbing disease there is living in a future that exists only within their head. A pompous liberal who lives in a world where there is only right and wrong (He's right and to hell with the rest).
Sensitivty is protected to the hilt while every attempt is made to make fun of all the silly over compensation that we seem to burden ourselves with.
At the end of the day look at Alan and Denny as one, just in different time frames and the rest of the cast as little more than sands in the hour glass. Between the nut, the pompous and you and I, I feel we will all get a good laugh at how silly things really have become.