Let's compare to his direct contemporaries.
Tom Glavine - 80.7 WAR - Elected first year of eligibility with 91.9% of the vote
Mike Mussina- 82.8 WAR - Elected his sixth year of eligibility.
John Smoltz - 69.0 WAR - Elected in his first year of eligibility with 82.9% of the vote.
Curt Schilling - 79.5 WAR - Not a Hall of Famer at all.
Schilling is closer to Pedro Martinez the he is John Smoltz by WAR, but Martinez is an all-peak kind of guy and generally held in a different tier. While his career overlaps significantly with Halladay, I would not consider them the same generation. Including Halladay would further bolster Schilling's case. I have cut out the roiders, Clemens and Kevin Brown as they are not looked at for statistical performance, but for an on-the-field problem. Maddux and Randy Johnson are obviously and undeniably in the top tier of HOF greatness and blow everyone else out of the water.
I can't see a reasonable case that Schilling isn't a Hall of Famer. I can see a reasonable case that the Hall shouldn't include so many players and be much smaller, and Curt shouldn't be in that small hall, but that's not the Hall that actually exists. He clearly meets the standard of his generation. I will never understand the apparently numerous people who will deny anything if it doesn't suit their favored political narrative.
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