Walker weirdness

That's the title of a Capital Times editorial on Scott Walker's attempt to link photo ID cards for voters with efforts to control the manufacture of methamphetamine by requiring identification from people buying cold medicine which can be used to make meth.

It had this to say of Walker:

Yet the gubernatorial candidate still succeeded in belittling both the defense of democracy and the fight against dangerous drugs in a single partisan press release - no small accomplishment, even for so ambitious and irresponsible a politician as Walker.

There is no question that Walker is under a great deal of stress. His campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination is not going all that well, and the county he is supposed to be managing is again running substantial budget deficits. But the real test of any executive is his or her ability to maintain sound judgment even in stressful times.

Walker's bumbling attempt to attack Doyle - on the grounds that the governor wants to maintain access to the ballot box and limit access to materials for making dangerous drugs - suggests that he is failing that test. Miserably.

The Capital Times might be surprised to learn that Walker isn't the only Republican making that absurd comparison. Republican radio talkers Sykes and Wagner (and maybe Belling, but I never hear him) have done the same. Must be part of the GOP's talking points.