Liberal scribe’s faux praise of GOP typical

As I began to read Jay Bookman’s column, “As primary runoffs showed, GOP tends to eat its own” (Opinion, Aug. 1), I had to check the byline to see if it really was “From the Left.” Approximately the first one-third of the column was praising Republicans Casey Cagle and David Shafer! However, it turns out that was only because they had lost in the primaries, and Bookman was starting his campaign for the Democratic candidate. He went on to criticize the Republican winner, Brian Kemp.

I wonder if he would have written the same praise of Cagle and Shafer had they been the winners. With the Democrats, there never is heard a discouraging word about fellow progressives, as they like to call themselves now, whereas some days in the AJC it seems there are two columns “From the Left.” JUDITH MCCARTHY, ATLANTA