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.

“She’s the type of person who wants to be recognized,” Mr. Costine said.

I actually hadn’t heard this part before (the friend called police, not Todd):

Mr. Garcia, 32, a first-year student at the University of Pittsburgh law school who also is from Texas, met Ms. Todd in May at a gathering of young Republicans in their hometown of College Station. On Wednesday night, she came back to his house, bruised and battered, and told him of the attack. He contacted police.

This nutter joins a long list of black nutters who perpetrated white on black hoaxes

If anyone beats this drum, FOX can run some real juicy tapes about past college instructors et al playing the game. Since there are more hoaxes on the left, starting with Tawana Brawley, it would be a bad diversion

Matter of fact, it might be good to keep it all alive, since flaunting this obnoxious race stuff in the last two weeks stokes race fears

It doesn’t matter how they discuss race, the word ‘race’ and ‘discrimination’ repeated too often triggers a defense reaction. It works on blacks and it works on whites who have been called racist until they are sick of the word.

I don’t think this girl hurts McCain anymore than she would have hurt Obama. Neither McCain or Obama are responsible for what crazy people do.

The most depressing thing is that the atmosphere surrounding the election is such that a story like this sounded plausible.

I still think that all the skepticism up front was a double edged sword. The truth would have come out any way, it was not necessary for all sorts of people from pundits to commenters to pile on here. I think that when people make a claim like this they should get the benefit of the doubt until we know for sure. Not everyone is a liar.

Terrye on October 24, 2008 at 6:19 PM

Ditto.

My kitty says:

Ms. Todd is a democratic plant installed to both disgrace the McCain campaign and divert attention away from The One’s shady relationships with communist revolutionaries.

I know of several instances wherein attacks occured and the police were not contacted, if only because it was easier to “let it go away” afterward and not undergo the ridicule afterward.

S on October 24, 2008 at 6:19 PM

You have to realize that it isn’t ridicule. Our justice system was created by people who were criminals, wanted men. It favors the accused and I won’t make any apologies for that.

Put down the crack pipe and go back to your adding machine.

Bradky on October 25, 2008 at 12:49 AM

I’m still mystified as to your calculator fetish. Projection, I’m guessing.

MadisonConservative on October 25, 2008 at 12:34 AM

Put down the crack pipe and go back to your adding machine.

Bradky on October 24, 2008 at 10:51 PM

Still sulking over DC versus Heller? Just have an extra drink at your next Brady meeting.

Dont we all just hate them type? And now we all can make fun of her and ridicule her, oh what fun, just like high school all over again.

Terrye on October 24, 2008 at 6:19 PM

Woo doggies as jed would say – you, Unseen, and Madison Conservative sure got that wrong. Put away the guns (for MC it is those camouflage calculators shaped like a Mac 10), find a different race angle to get all irate about, and wait for the next raw news to send you into hysterics.

(tackling mass immigration would be a start).

aengus on October 24, 2008 at 9:29 PM

Yeah I’m sure he’s gonna get right on that any day now…

aengus:

I don’t think Bush is in denial about Islam at all. I think he is simply facing the reality that there are a billion or more Muslims in the world and we can not make enemies of them all.

Terrye on October 24, 2008 at 9:21 PM

The reality is that a billion Muslims are our enemy whether we like it or not. It is not in Bush’s power to make the worlds Muslims our friends or our enemies–their religious doctrine of enmity has nothing, I repeat NOTHING, to do with US foreign policy. Bush ought to recognise the reality of the situation and respond accordingly to protect the West from Islamisation (tackling mass immigration would be a start).

I don’t think Bush is in denial about Islam at all. I think he is simply facing the reality that there are a billion or more Muslims in the world and we can not make enemies of them all.