Things can get pretty weird out there in Internet Land, what with those crazy kids and their web logs.

Take, for instance, this seemingly mundane post about that recent poll which shows Judy Baar Topinka leading Rod Blagojevich.

Everything seems fairly normal until you open up the post’s comments section. And then it’s as if you’ve stepped behind the looking glass.

A guy who implied that he ran the Democrat-leaning Election Projections blog posted several comments that were just beyond bizarre and obviously false. Remember as you read this that these are untrue rumors.

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I have some very reliable friends in high places in this state and they all said that Topinka is connected to Abramoff and that story will break soon. Once it does she’s toast.

When questioned about the link to disgraced Washington, DC lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the commenter responded:

I just know that my friends Michael Madigan(the speaker of the House), Emil Jones, Jr.(president of the Senate), and Tom Holbrook have all told me that the connection is a sure thing, and their just waiting for the right time to release it.

I couldn’t reach Holbrook last night, but a spokesman for Mike Madigan said he’d never heard of such a thing.

When pressed for more details, the commenter boasted:

But I’ll tell a little about myself. I’m under 25 and as you can tell heavily involved in politics. This November I’ll become precinct committeeman for my town. Then in about 6 I’ll be a state rep. Not going to tell who I’ll be replacing but let’s just say I’ve made friends with the right people. That person will be retiring around then. But instead of retiring that person will run for re-election and appoint me to the position. So whenever I tell you all about Illinois regardless of what it is I would take it very seriously. Blagojevich along with many others in this state all know who I am and I get the dirt on everyting.

Pressed further, he wrote:

I’ll give you a hint I live in St.Clair county Illinois and if you pay attention to that county over the next couple of years you’ll figure out who I am. Thank you for your I guess “faith” in me and expecting big things. I know how laughable this is laughable to many of you. But if all goes according to plan I’m being groomed to become the next gov of this state but that’s a long way away. I can give you one clue though who the next gov will be after Blagojevich. Watch out for a man named Jay Hoffman he’s currently being groomed by Blagojevich to take control after he wins re-election and me and Jay are let’s say very very close.

Rep. Hoffman, reached last night, laughed so hard he almost split a gut when I read him the above paragraph. Hoffman had no clue who the young man might be, and said he figured it must be a right-wing Republican causing trouble.

I was killing some time last night and managed to contact the commenter via e-mail. He at first admitted he wrote the posts, then backtracked when presented with the impossibility of his story and said he only wrote some of them, then finally confessed that he had made the whole thing up. “I like messing with those right wing nut jobs,” he wrote.

He also denied that he is the guy who writes that Election Projections blog, claiming that he borrowed his friend’s identity to post at the other blog.

The funniest part, though, is that many of the commenters at the conservative blog took him seriously enough to engage him in debate.