Just a Bubp in the road

November 22, 2005

Last week, Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) lashed out at Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) on the House floor, and relayed remarks she claimed to have received from Marine Colonel Danny Bubp: “[He] asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.”

As Avedon noted yesterday, Col. Bubp’s background suggests he’s a fairly predictable right-wing activist. But the story gets even more entertaining today — Bubp is hanging Schmidt out to dry.

[A] spokeswoman for the colonel, Danny R. Bubp, said Ms. Schmidt had misconstrued their conversation.

While Mr. Bubp, a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, opposes a quick withdrawal for forces, “he did not mention Congressman Murtha by name nor did he mean to disparage Congressman Murtha,” said Karen Tabor, his spokeswoman. “He feels as though the words that Congresswoman Schmidt chose did not represent their conversation.”

In fact, he also told reporters that there was “no discussion of him personally being a coward or about any person being a coward.”

Apparently, everyone on the right is in full retreat from their Murtha attacks. I guess some folks just can’t be Swift-Boated.

This doesn’t surprise me much. I thought it rather unlikely that one Marine Colonel would suggest using such language against another Marine Colonel.

I wonder how likely Ms. Schmidt is to retain her seat in the next election. She has to be a favored target of the Dems.

  • Did she retract, or apologize? I heard she
    tried to efface it from the Congressional
    Record, but don’t know if it’s true.

    This was so low that she ought to be
    censured, if she hasn’t publicly
    apologized and repudiated it.

    There should have been some media
    outrage. This was over the top. So
    was the Swiftboating of Kerry, for that
    matter.

  • It’ll be somewhat hard for Dems to run her out, given the overwhelming republican majority in OH-02– where I grew up. If Hackett couldn’t win there this year, no Dem ever will. More likely is that she’ll actually have to face a republican primary.

    I’m glad to see that she’s facing criticism from the local press, though the Enquirer wasn’t exactly the full-voiced condemnation that it really should be. Shouldn’t they be embarassed to remind the readers that they endorsed her? And from both papers, it’s more than a day late.

  • Jean Schmidt stand revealed as an inept, lying, stupid, gutless political hack of the lowest possible kind, and yet the people of her district in Ohio would still re-elect her?

    Doesn’t say much for either the intelligence or the integrity of the voters there, does it?

  • Reasonable point, but the same truths didn’t stop voters nationwide from returning Bush to office, so I don’t know if her constituents are any worse than the average.

  • Indeed, my comrade, but even the most vile of politicians are generally somewhat telegenic, which Jean Schmidt most definitely is not. So I would have to postulate, with the utmost respect to the good people of Ohio, that they must be even more numb from the neck up than the majority of the nation if they’re willing to send someone to Washington who is not only totally unqualified by either intellect or integrity but is a withered old crone, to boot.

    Nothing personal, I assure you, I just don’t like her very much. 😉

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