What an idiot. She actually scratched the “B” into her face backwards and the black eyes, according to an emergency room nurse asked by Salon, may not even be real. If they aren’t real, did she think she could use make up and convince the police? If they’re self-inflicted, what the hell kind of moron is she?

A McCain-Palin campaign volunteer who claimed she was robbed and cut by a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama has confessed to making up the story, police sources told the Tribune-Review.

Ashley Todd, 20, of College Station, Texas, is expected to be charged with filing a false police report and may face additional charges, investigators said. She told detectives she etched a backward letter “B” onto her right cheek and then manufactured a story about being attacked at a Bloomfield ATM by a black man who was enranged by her John McCain bumper sticker.

Detectives are continuing to question Todd at police headquarters. They are expected to release additional information later this afternoon.

What did she think she had to gain from this? Helping John McCain’s campaign? Yeah, thanks for that, moron. Or was it just her looking for 15 minutes of fame and that scenario would get it for her? Stupid either way.

Props to Michelle Malkin who said it smelled fishy.