Damn tree-hugging hippie Republicans

Gov. Bob Riley is a friend of PETA and "is being supported by liberal anti-gun extremists," according to former Gov. Don Siegelman, who surely is one of the first modern Democrats to use liberal as a pejorative toward a Republican opponent. As it turns out, Riley is so anti-gun that he recently went duck hunting.

Siegelman also did his best last week to link his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley, to the Riley administration's decision to conduct annual property revaluations, an assertion that makes perfect sense except for the part where she had no say in the matter. Baxley's response: "The only thing I've ever had to do with taxes is paying my taxes."

On a more minor note, based on the Mobile Register's excerpts from his letter to supporters, someone really should make sure Siegelman knows the correct plural form of deer.