Dispatch On Drugs?

My local newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, is among the most conservative dailies in the country.  The last time the Dispatch endorsed a Democrat for President was 1916 (seriously), when they gave the nod to Woodrow Wilson.  They endorsed Romney a couple weeks ago.

So I was rather amazed to read today that the Dispatch is endorsing Sherrod Brown for reelection to the U.S. Senate.  Was I seeing things?  Had the editors been sucking on a crack pipe?

Neither.  While the editors managed to work a load of criticisms into their endorsement of Brown (with friends like these, Sherrod . . . ) and undoubtedly held their nose with one hand while typing it with the other, even the hard-rock Republican Dispatch had to admit that Josh Mandel is a creepy little weenie unqualified to be dogcatcher.