Ashley Todd's Instability Seen Well In Advance Of Pittsburgh Hoax

You really have to commend the people who supported the candidacy of Ron Paul. Sure, those guys dressed up in weird costumes, and aspired to fly around in Liberty Blimps, and they terrorized the streets of New Hampshire in their determined attempt to unleash a fatwa on Sean Hannity. But as it turns out, the Paul supporters were much more able than the McCain campaign at discerning the real crazies in their midst. Long before McCain volunteer Ashley Todd decided to foment a Pennsylvania race-war by going all Un Chien Andalou on her cheek, the Paul campaign recognized something in her that ran a little deeper than their own studied eccentricities.

Via Boing Boing:

In March, Ms. Todd was asked to leave a grass-roots group of Ron Paul supporters in Brazos County, Texas, group leader Dustan Costine said. He said Ms. Todd posed as a supporter of former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and called the local Republican committee seeking information about its campaign strategies.

"She would call the opposing campaign and pretend she was on their campaign to get information," Mr. Costine said last night. "We had to remove her because of the tactics she displayed. After that we had nothing to do with her."

The worst thing is that John McCain was the second choice of his most passionate supporter in Pennsylvania!

Comments

[SEQUOIABISON]

Ashley Todd = Secretary of State in McCain/Palin administration.

Hey she could not be worse than Rice?

Obama/Biden

[BPSN]

POOR LIL GURL LOST & TURNED OUT,THIS WAS PREMEDITAT­ED,MCCAINS FOLKS KNOW ABOUT THIS,IT WILL COME OUT,IT `S GOING TO COME FROM NEW YORK ONE OF MCCAINS PERSONEL WILL BE PUT ON FRONT STREET.REP­UBLICANS BE READY,GOOD FOLK IN THE US WANTS CHANGE ,GOOD OLE BOYISM IS OVER JUST FACE IT ( :

[convictbush]

Sometimes people get over zealous and make stupid choices hoping to engratiate themselves to their jobs, peers, overlords, etc... They usually come to regret it later in life and most even learn to be better people afterwards.

[AdamX]

Enough about McCain... what do you think of Todd?

[ConCreteHead]

After reading the tactics Ms. Todd used prior to being asked to leave that Ron Paul group I have to wonder how many other Illegitimate kids does Karl Rove have running around this country ???

[bob8788]

Sad pathetic human person, shame, shame

http://www.barackobamacans.blogspot.com/

[ContraEgoiste]

Thing is, this is not the first time Republicans have tried this.


http://www.michigandaily.com/content/alleged-political-hate-crime-not-what-it-seemed

Ann Arbor police said Justin Zatkoff, the executive director of the Michigan Federation of College Republicans, was not attacked by "liberal thugs," as posted on the conservative blog truthcaucus.com. "

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http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/12/14/news/19743.shtml

Francisco Nava '09 admitted yesterday to fabricating an alleged assault on him that he said occurred Friday evening and to sending threatening emails to himself, other members of the Anscombe Society and prominent conservative politics professor Robert George. He admitted the falsification while being questioned by Princeton Township Police.

[plooger]

I wouldn't call what you described here as "instability", just a lack of ethics.

[ImpalaSuperSport]

Figures, a former Paulian nut.

[JiminNC]

As F'd up as McLurch's campaign has been, I will not try to lay this nutty kid at his feet. Maybe she just likes old men.

[TooLooze]

True, but McCain has never refuted the odious racial overtones when they have come from his campaign.

[FR]

She is not a kid. Rather than nutty, she is systematically and serially devious. She was not a volunteer, but a paid staffer for a campaign that was busy inciting violence and baiting bigotry. When she went to play hero for them, she dragged out the worst form of sexually-charged racist incendiary plot; you know, the kind that used to inspire lynch mobs.
Who cares if she likes old men; she liked one's rhetoric, enough to carry it to its this horrid extreme.

[kjstjohn]

I have tried to make that point but have been blocked. Thanks for getting it out there.

[pebblesvanpeebles]

b is for behold the republican party: crazies and people still dumb enough to think that letting their personal opinions and prejudices govern everyone else is not just a-okay, it's the will of God.

[robiform]

It sounds as though Ashley Todd got as much vetting by the McCain campaign as did Sarah Palin. As in: zero!!

[TKFraz]

Folks...

McCain has incited the worst in us (bought tears to my eyes):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL20TdHjX2s

***America needs a President that will UNITE US.

[honestpolitician]

note to self....ne­ver travel through Pennsylvan­ia...I might get lynched...

http://politicaladattacks.blogspot.com/

[PhillyQuaker]

Most of us are gentle - people, really.

[the964kid]

McCain is so desperate he can't turn down volunteers, even if they're insane!

[DangitRuss]

Insanity might work better in his case. They ask less questions

[bushgirlsgone]

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Although the Paul campaign may have suspected she had a Rove-ish knack for carrying true Republican values, she was fully vetted by John McCain himself, and that should be good enough.

The real tragedy here is that because of her experience with the ATM machine, she was on the McCain fast track to becoming his Secretary of the Treasury.

[truthforme]

LOL