skippy the bush kangaroo: blog backfire

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

blog backfire

apparently a rand paul staffer has been writing anti-dem-candidate screeds on the great orange satan, which only resulted in the kos kids donating even more to paul's opponent.

well, it turns out that at least one member of rand paul's paid campaign staff has been posing as a progressive member of the daily kos community in an effort to dampen enthusiasm for conway's campaign and moneybomb. the staffer, thomas kubica, is a paid intern in paul's bowling green office. paul campaign's front desk confirmed kubica's status as a paid intern on tuesday morning.

kubica registered at daily kos under the pseudonym "huey long" and has repeatedly posed as a progressive democrat who opposes paul but does not believe conway is worthy of support.

but despite his claim to be a progressive democrat, look at how kubica describes himself on his linkedin page:

thomas kubica at rand paul for us senate 2010
political organization greater nashville area
current: independent contractor at rand paul for us senate 2010 past: perishables lab analyst/conservation lab analyst at mercyhurst archaeological institute education: mercyhurst college

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fortunately, kubica's lame attempt at "psyops" was so transparent it was easy to catch him in the act. the only person more out of touch than a progressive who would support rand paul over jack conway is a paultard who believes a "true progressive" would ever support paul over conway.

but what does it say about the paul campaign that they would hire someone engaging in an attempted dirty trick like this? everybody knows campaigns are tough business, but a gambit that involves attempting to manipulate the views and behaviors of your political opponents by posing as a like-minded ally is a gambit that goes too far. it's just plain wrong.

but it's not just wrong: kubica clearly hoped to put a wet blanket on conway's moneybomb today. he knows this community, when it gets engaged, and can move mountains. so let's step up to the plate and show what we can do: let's support jack conway by contributing to his fight fund during today's moneybomb!
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join jack conway himself in his campaign's recommended diary, support our moneybomb today! [update: over $130k!].

update: now this is what we're talking about!

hey markos, will you please email mr. kubica to (17+ / 0-)
let him know that, because of his dickheadedness, i just donated another $50 to mr. conway's campaign?

thanks!
granny

thx and a tip o'the kangaroo tail to memeorandum for the link!

posted by skippy at 12:41 PM |