Ashley Todd didn't think it was "such a big deal"

[malaise]

http://www.spectator.org/blog/2008/10/25/behind-the-ashley-todd-hoax
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Prior to last week's hoax in Pittsburgh, Ashley Todd had given College Republican officials no indication she might be capable of such deceit.

"It's just a bizarre, bizarre situation," said one source.

There was "never any inkling" that Todd was dishonest or emotionally unstable, the source explained in a telephone interview. Todd reportedly told police that she has had prior mental health issues, but nobody at College Republicans -- for whom Todd was one of about 50 volunteers working in this year's campaign -- was aware of that background.

Todd had been one of about 55 volunteers who attended an August training session in Washington, DC. Several would-be candidates for the College Republican program were "weeded out" during that session, but Todd seemed "perfectly normal," the source said.

After admitting that the reported attack was a hoax, but before being taken into police custody, Todd told a friend in Pittsburgh that she didn't think it was "such a big deal," said the source, who found that remark "incredible."
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College Rethugs found her perfectly normal - Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :rofl:
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[Demeter]

1. They Are ALL Bozos On That Bus

[firedupdem]

2. sure...no big deal....make up a crazy story about being mugged

and assaulted by a black guy because you support McCain...no big deal...

[last1standing]

5. It really is no big deal to a repub.

The main ethos of the repub party today is "Do what it takes to get yours". There is nothing else.

[malaise]

6. You know she may have real problems escaping punishment

given her fellow Rethugs endorsement of her 'sanity'.

No big deal indeed. Maybe this is normal behaviour for College Rethugs. :puke:

[ashling]

11. I just stole your picture

no big deal :hi:

I likes Obama Pie

[last1standing]

3. Ashley Todd (aka B-Girl) is a perfectly normal college republican.

And that says everything anyone needs to know. :scared:

[norepubsin08]

14. She's a normal republican period

every fucking conservative I have met is like that!

[HopeFor2006]

4. Well, judging by their standards...

:shrug:

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Just a reminder of what kind of people come from "College Republicans"

Karl Rove. Ann Coulter. Ralph Reed. Jack Abramoff. Grover Norquist.

Just to name a few.

If THAT is your standard, then yes Ashley B. Fraud would be very much "normal".

[grannylib]

18. Excellent point.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. There's a whole nother story on this Todd chickie.

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/10/25/one-more-on-ashley-todd/

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."

About a month earlier, he said, Ms. Todd sent an e-mail to the Ron Paul group saying her tires were slashed and that campaign paraphernalia had been stolen from her car because she supported Mr. Paul.

Stop there for a sec. she was too crazy for the Ron Paulians, I know PM regulars would appreciate that one. Also: has a pattern, but wait there's more!

...

On her MySpace profile, where her screen name is "Italian Pajamas," Ms. Todd gives her occupation as "Being a badass." Next to her picture, she references the title of a song by the group Panic at the Disco: "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her cloths (sic) off," but adds to it "but its (sic) better if you do."

[malaise]

10. I don't believe that they didn't know about her past

I think they wanted Miss Badass to create some mischief in Pennsylvania. After all look at that email they sent to 75,000 Jewish voters.

[Quantess]

15. there were some red flags, if any fellow College Republicans had bothered to look.

OTOH, maybe they liked her slimy tactics.

That is pretty hilarious, that she got kicked out of the Ron Paul group.

[Chulanowa]

17. Too crazy for the Paulistas?

You mean those guys who think a gold standard is the answer to everything, every state should secede, and that we've been in a fascist police state since 1938?

Well, damn. That's some kind of crazy if the "Anarcho-libertarians For a Republican" sector thinks it has room to talk

[sabrina 1]

20. 'Being a bad-ass'

She's a female Karl Rove. 'Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking off her clothes'

If she hadn't been found out, she would be a hero to them. In fact she probably is. Karl Rove, Abramoff, Norquist, Ralph Reed were all College Republicans, all liars, all 'bad-asses'. And all seriously disturbed. She was a perfect candidate, and I would not be surprised if in ten years she is a political consultant for the Republican Party. Being arrested doesn't stop them. G.Gordon Liddy is still a hero to them.

These people have destroyed this country. I bet she is just one of thousands of them. And losing in November will only motivate them more. There needs to be some standards in place to prevent any Karl Roves, Abramoffs et al from ruining this country entirely.

[mtnester]

9. Think about the ones they "weeded out"

scary

[yardwork]

13. The Republicans weeded out the honest volunteers.

Todd was chosen precisely because she's such a good little Republican. She has all their values.

[matt819]

12. Interesting idea - weeding out volunteers

Okay, I'm not a volunteer organizer, so I don't know if this is typical. Do Obama volunteers go through a process where they might be "weeded out"? The only thing I can think of it that a volunteer might be a "plant" for the opposing campaign, and that, mind you, is a stretch. Are they looking for crazies, and then what does that say about RW volunteers? Are they looking for commitment? It seems to me that people self select in that arena. If you have tons of time, you make the commitment. If you don't have tons of time, you contribute in other ways. (For example, last weekend I brought food to two campaign offices for volunteers, canvassers, organizers, etc.) These people get weirder and weirder.

[autorank]

16. Oh, thank you. "perfectly normal" by Republican standards

There was somebody on DU the day that this came out. The poster made a reply in a thread and said
she'd gone over to someone's house n Pittsburgh who was a really good guy from Texas and he, the poster,
hoped that his friend wouldn't be ensnared in this. Wish I'd bookmarked it.

There's more to this. I think it's going to take WWIII to distract form the inevitable in this
election.

But omg! The backwords B

[bluedawg12]

19. Perfectly normal? Great the insane plea is out the window. n/t

[tblue37]

21. This passage is telling:

Todd had been one of about 55 volunteers who attended an August training session in Washington, DC. Several would-be candidates for the College Republican program were "weeded out" during that session, but Todd seemed "perfectly normal," the source said. Nor were College Republican officials aware that Todd had been asked to leave a group of grassroots Ron Paul supporters in her native Texas because she used deceptive tactics, as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

Obviously the College Republicans were not as troubled as the grassroots Ron Paul supporters to find that she used deceptive tactics. The College Republicans welcome deceptive tactics with open arms.

[MonteLukast]

26. How can you possibly be weeded out of a volunteer training session?

Were those "several" found to be too liberal?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

22. Because lying and cheating is their M.O.

They've seen the Chimpy administration and numerous Rethugs get away with anything and everything for eight years. They learned it all from them.

[nichomachus]

23. It isn't a big deal

at least by McCain/Palin standards. McCain and Palin have done far worse race-baiting than Ashley. They set the tone. She followed their lead.

[TexasObserver]

24. Palin-Todd: The NEW Republican Party!

It's not just for MALE jackasses any more!!

[noamnety]

25. I don't believe the past tense is appropriate here.

"Prior to last week's hoax in Pittsburgh, Ashley Todd had given College Republican officials no indication she might be capable of such deceit."

Prior?

Corrected version: "Ashley Todd has given College Republican officials no indication she is capable of such deceit.""

[malaise]

27. LOL

Good point.

[Marrah_G]

28. I'm just glad she was found out. She could have ignited a real shitstorm.

Imagine if some young man had gone to prison for it?

I hope they throw the proverbial book at her.

[Laelth]

29. Hmm ... dishonest or emotionally unstable?

Sounds like a lot of Republicans I know. Nothing unusual there. I can see why here "issues" went undetected.

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[dkofos]

30. They think bush is PERFECTLY NORMAL too.

So much for what THEY think is normal.