A Virginia political candidate likes to sign his posts: “I am Mike Webb, and I am running for U.S. Congress. Honest.” That’s how he ended a note about a bizarre job application situation he found himself in, which included a screenshot of the company’s details in question … and two tabs clearly open to porn searches.

After several hours of it circulating around, Webb took it down and put up an amazingly implausible explanation:

Curious by nature, I wanted to test the suggestion that somehow, lurking out in the pornographic world there is some evil operator waiting for the one in a gazillion chance that a candidate for federal office would go to that particular website and thereby be infected with a virus that would cause his or her FEC data file to crash the FEC file application each time that it was loaded on the day of the filing deadline, as well as impact other critical campaign systems. Well, the Geek Squad techs testified to me, after servicing thousands of computers at the Baileys Crossroads location that they had never seen any computer using their signature virus protection for the time period to acquire over 4800 viruses, 300 of which would require re-installation of the operating system. We are currently awaiting their attempt at recovery of files on that machine accidentally deleted when they failed to backup files before re-installation, a scenario about which Matthew Wavro speculated openly to me before we were informed by the Geek Squad that that had indeed occurred….

Convincing exactly zero people, Webb deleted one rambling note and replaced with another that tacitly acknowledges what he was doing. It can be summarized as: God is good, social media is perverted, but hey, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

Webb, an Arlington resident, lost the primary for the GOP nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Don Beyer. Naturally, he’s now running as an independent. Honest.