Tom Johnson, my long-time friend and former colleague, e-mailed me to note that in their last item Saturday, two political gossips at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported “U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, the golden boy of moderate Wisconsin Democrats, may be in for his first real political challenge in years,” an apparently solid GOP state legislator. (Kind won in 1996 when Steve Gunderson came out of the closet and quit politics.)

This is good news for conservatives in my home area of western Wisconsin, but since when is Ron Kind a “moderate”? A quick glance at acuratings.com shows that Kind has a lifetime ACU rating of 13, and had an 8 in 2002. Last year, Kind also flip-flopped and voted against a partial-birth abortion ban. Votes like these don’t exactly define you as a moderate.

You wonder if the young guns following all these races in the local press for the NRCC or state GOPs just roll their eyes at all the labeling misinformation.