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From a total whackjob.

He very well may be. After all, he worked with and for Ron Paul for almost two decades.

Advocating legal prostitution

That's a pretty standard libertarian position.

calling himself a combat vet because a ship he was on was attacked after he was transferred elsewhere

I was unaware he claimed to be a combat veteran.

calling himself fluent in 12-15 languages (can't he even count them) then producing his own how-to-learn-foreign-languages book which is universally panned as the single most awful language book available

Claiming to know languages you don't know is whacky - being a poor textbook writer isn't.

his history of pretending he is virtually a founder of the Libertarian Party

I've only heard him claim to be a founder of the Republican Liberty Caucus, which he apparently is.

while he's always bashing Libertarians

If a libertarian who criticizes other libertarians is whacky, then so are all libertarians. Which is a perfectly defensible thesis.

how he grandstands his way into virtually any campaign he can and then destroys it, ...

I thought he was hired by Ron Paul for Paul's 1996 GOP Congressional campaign - which was successful.

Last I heard, he was backing Giuliani and saying all the other candidates should drop out.

Giuliani is certainly as libertarian on sexual matters as any candidate in the race - which would sync well with Rittberg's acknowledged pro-abortion and pro-prostitution philosophy. Supporting Giuliani for President is certainly somewhat whacky in my opinion - but no whackier than supporting Paul.

He is also planning to declare for Ron Paul's seat.

His article says he is backing Chris Peden.

We RP supporters couldn't be happier to defeat him if Ron Paul decides to run for Congress again.

I don't see how Ron Paul could lose his Congressional seat.

He is better-funded by virtue of his presidential campaign millions than any primary challenger, and his strategy of appeasing militant Islam and voting against pro-life legislation steals the message of any Democratic candidate.

I don't enough about Rittberg to characterize him, but Paul and his supporters do, and it's their opinion that counts. That Ron Paul would retain a total wackjob, a liar, and advocate of prostitution, a veritable lunatic, as a valued staffer, in fact in supervisory positions, for over a decade points to Ron Paul's complete inability to judge character, imo obvious from the places he accept support. This is not a good recomendation for even a supervisory position in government, say postmaster, much less a position from which he'll be appointing judges and Cabinet members.

My guess, if Rittberg wore a "Pull the Troops out NOW!" T-shirt, he'd be described as an accomplished long term member of the Paul team.

“I don’t see how Ron Paul could lose his Congressional seat.”

He has to survive the primary. I live in his district. I will be voting for his primary opponent. A LOT of other Republicans will, too.

I am hoping that the Democratic Presidential race is still undecided by the time of the primary to reduce the number of democrat crossovers that would vote for Paul in the primary. That — and an ignorance of his policies by district Republicans — are his only hopes for getting past the primary.