Prepare to be amused
The Decatur Daily’s editorial board – the second most liberal in the state – wrote this almost farcical endorsement for Cheryl Baswell Guthrie:
Cheryl Baswell Guthrie, is conservative and adheres to many views that we question. She is, however, intelligent and articulate.
First of all, the Decatur Daily’s editorial page writers wouldn’t know a conservative if one fell out of the sky and landed on top of them. Apparently they think that being a conservative means believing things that they don’t, which is kind of an admission of being liberal. But how in tarnation (I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen that word written out) can they call Cheryl “Sequel One” Baswell “Sequel Two” Guthrie articulate?
Even the leftists picked up on this one noting that does it “give one pause – and a couple of chuckles.”
I would argue that this is more of an endorsement for Wayne Parker than for Guthrie. It’s no great feather in your cap as a self proclaimed conservative to get endorsed by the liberals at the Decatur Daily.
whoa – do they have 5th graders writing for them?
1) they must not have heard her dale jackson interview, if they say she is articulate and intelligent
2) i thought parker said he didn’t think the debate was necessary because they had already participated in a debate on the same issues? didn’t ever read that he didn’t want to participate because he didn’t want to address his lobbying background, maybe i missed that?
3)she “has the tools she would need to interact with the members of congress” – like what? a mouth?
I’m actually not at all surprised that a liberal rag would endorse Baswell-Guthrie. She would have absolutely no chance of winning the general election against Parker Griffith. Wayne Parker stands a much better chance, and this endorsement is more of a North Alabama Operation Chaos than an endorsement of Baswell-Guthrie.
AGre with Rick, sounds like the paper is setting up the R side of the ballot for failure and advance the cause of their preferred D candidate.