What if 'Daily Worker' backed Bucher?

The Capital Times tears Republican attorney general candidate a new orifice in an editorial on his extremist views.

Highlights from the edit:

...Van Hollen is now placing himself on the radical fringe of conservatism.

Two weeks ago, he was ranting about the "pro-gay" agenda of legislators who oppose discrimination against same-sex couples.

Last week, in a discussion about his legal philosophy, he effectively compared women who seek to terminate unsafe or unwanted pregnancies with murderers...

Van Hollen's statement caused a public outcry and he was forced to acknowledge that, under the law of the land, women have a right to make decisions about what happens with their own bodies. But he did not back off his comparison of such women to murderers. Nor did he suggest that he believes anything different...

There are many social conservatives who offer principled arguments for changing laws regarding abortion.

J.B. Van Hollen is not one of them. He has placed himself outside the mainstream, and that ought to place him outside of consideration by responsible Republicans.

How embarrassing would it be for Paul Bucher, Van Hollen's primary opponent, if the Capital Times -- the paper Joe McCarthy used to call the Madison Daily Worker -- endorsed him in the Republican primary? He'd never live it down. It could cost him the nomination, if the GOP's lunatic base found out.

Just to make sure that doesn't happen, watch for Bucher to say something even crazier and more extreme than Van Hollen in the days ahead. When he does, it probably won't be a strategic move, but just an unguarded moment -- like when he talked about how great it would have been if everyone in that Brookfield church service had been armed when a nutcase fired 22 shots in a matter of seconds and killed seven people.

Never fear. When it's all said and done, Bucher will be just as loony as Van Hollen.