The GOP primary is turning out to be nothing but trouble for Jane Norton in Colorado. Her primary opponents are already running stinging ads accusing her of supporting tax increases as Lieutenant Governor.

From Politico:

Colorado Senate candidate Jane Norton is getting walloped in television and radio for her support of a controversial 2005 ballot initiative that her opponents label “the biggest tax increase in state history.”

Former state lawmaker Tom Wiens, who is competing with Norton for the GOP Senate nomination, has launched a 60-second radio ad that targets her position on Referendum C without ever using her name.

It seems that all of Norton’s kowtowing to the right – vowing to abolish the Department of Education, sitting and smiling as the President was called a Muslim in front of her, and muttering about the President’s concern for “terrorist rights” – hasn’t gotten her to the right of her Republican primary opponents. Which is a frightening indictment of the political alignment of today’s GOP.