Where The Hell Do They Get These People?

I'm beginning to think that, in the same way that the Army has lowered the recruitment standards so that 42 year-old one-legged drug addicts currently in prison can now be deployed to Iraq, because nobody else wants to go there, the standards for joining a Republican Presidential staff have been lowered as well, since nobody wants to join up with them either.

State Police are investigating one of Mitt Romney's top campaign aides for allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe.

Jay Garrity, who is director of operations on Romney's presidential campaign and a constant presence at his side, became the primary target of the investigation, according to one of the sources, after authorities traced the cellphone used to make the call back to him. The investigation comes three years after Garrity, while working for Romney in the State House, was cited for having flashing lights and other police equipment in his car without proper permits.

The New Hampshire attorney general, according to the Associated Press, has also opened an investigation into a report that a Romney aide, later identified as Garrity, pulled over a New York Times reporter in New Hampshire and said he had run his license plate.

This is a top campaign staffer on a major campaign pulling an Olden Polynice, and apparently he has a history of this. Flashing lights in his car? What, is he playing Adam-12 when the mood strikes him?

They actually have a transcript of the phone call, which means there's a tape:

In the phone call to the Wilmington company, which was recorded by an answering service and obtained by the Globe, a man who identifies himself as "Trooper Garrity with the Massachusetts State Police" complains about the driving of a van owned by Wayne's Drains Middlesex Sewers of Wilmington. The caller repeatedly says he is a trooper and questions when the driver will return to the office.

HE USED HIS OWN NAME.

OK, let's backtrack. On Republican campaigns in 2008, we have a coke dealer, a former Nixon spy, a serial police officer impersonator, and Tim Griffin, the guy who caged votes during the last two elections.

To be fair, who else are Republicans going to get to work for them? I imagine the campaigns are staking out the prisons as we speak.

UPDATE: Oh yeah, I forgot about the child molesters:

Giuliani employs his childhood friend Monsignor Alan Placa as a consultant at Giuliani Partners despite a 2003 Suffolk County, N.Y., grand jury report that accuses Placa of sexually abusing children, as well as helping cover up the sexual abuse of children by other priests. Placa, who was part of a three-person team that handled allegations of abuse by clergy for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, is referred to as Priest F in the grand jury report. The report summarizes the testimony of multiple alleged victims of Priest F, and then notes, "Ironically, Priest F would later become instrumental in the development of Diocesan policy in response to allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests."