In tried and true Paul family fashion, the Rand Paul campaign responded to the revelation that one of their staffers had been trolling Daily Kos by claiming that it was a double reverse conspiracy.

Whenever Ron or Rand are caught doing something underhanded, this is how they respond.

I posted yesterday that DailyKos appeared to have caught a Rand Paul staffer pretending, in the comments, to be a progressive with doubts about Jack Conway. Paul aide Gary Howard, however, tells me — and has evidence to back it up — that this was an even more complicated online game, and that the culprit impersonated the Paul staffer to embarrass Paul’s campaign.

Wow, now that’s tricky. He pretended to be a Paulian, pretending to be a liberal, somehow knowing he would be caught, in order to embarrass Rand Paul.

Sure, that sounds plausible. Not.

“Our evidence is based on the signup email — which can’t be scammed. The owner of that email has to verify it by clicking on a link to post on Daily Kos,” Markos Moulitsas emails, providing a different, and apparently real, email address for Kubica.

I’ve asked Howard to take a look at that data as well.

Notice in the comments for Ben Smith’s article about online impersonation: a comment from someone impersonating me, and a comment pretending to be from another LGF lizard, using what they think is a real name out of sheer malice.

Does anyone ever moderate the comments at Politico? It’s become a real cesspool of trolls.