A lot was made of the Ashley Todd race baiting sexual assault hoax recently. This report, via Boing Boing, raises a whole new issue:

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. [Emphasis added]

Get that? She got kicked off the Ron Paul campaign for pulling similar sorts of stunts as her latest hoax.

But here’s the rub. This is how Life In The Field, the College Republican campaign that Todd worked on in Pennsylvania, describes itself:

For the past 20 years, the Field Representative Program has been the cornerstone of the College Republican National Committee. With programs in the Fall and the Spring, we deploy dozens of young, highly trained field operatives across the country to recruit new students to join the College Republicans.

Through our field representatives’ recruitment efforts, they are able to motivate students to volunteer and support Republican candidates, helping elect them to office.

And by motivating our generation and promoting conservative principles on college campuses, the College Republicans are able to make an impact on a national scale.

The 2008 Field Team is by far the most ambitious in our organization’s history. 50 field reps are deployed from coast-to-coast, equipped with cutting edge technology and innovative recruitment tools to help them accomplish their mission.

This Fall our team aims to recruit 100,000 new members and register 25,000 new voters.

That is, Ashley Todd is one of the College Republicans top 50 organizers in the entire country. One of fifty. The future of the College Republicans and the Republican Party on whole. She is one of the best they have. And she’s a serial liar who is facing criminal charges after making racist, hateful claims in the closing days of the presidential campaign.

Ashley Todd came to LITF08 with a history of doing phenomenally dishonest and dishonorable shit. No doubt this is a qualifying characteristic for the Atwater-Rove school of Republican operatives. It’s all she has, though, and it’s all the Republican Party has nowadays. If there is any fouler symptom of the rotting corpse of the Republican Party, I don’t know what it is.