Marine Reserve Colonel Danny Bubp - The Man Who Called Schmidt

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Read all about Ohio Rep. Danny Bubp, Swiftboat Professional.

Jean Schmidt: "A few minutes ago, I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp, Ohio Representative from the 88th district in the (Ohio) House of Representatives...he asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: That cowards cut and run; Marines never do."

In December of 2003, Col. Bubp was quoted as such in the Cincinnati Post:

http://www.cincypost.com/2003/12/23/soldiers12-23-2003.html

Danny Bubp, a West Union attorney and a Marine Corps Reserve colonel who is not going to Iraq, said about 300 people recently turned out at a rally for local troops headed for Iraq.

"There is much anxiety, worry and concern," he said. "People know we're losing a soldier just about every day in Iraq. "There's been a lot of tears, a lot of emotion and a lot of support for these men."

Col. Bubp and Jean Schmidt go back. Back, at least, to when he maligned Marine Major Paul Hackett's criticism of the President during the OH-2 special election:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/11/paul_hackett.html

AT VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK in Union Township, 50 supporters of Jean Schmidt gathered beneath a full-size decommissioned Huey helicopter, mounted on a pedestal like a hunting trophy. It was two days before the special election, and Schmidt had put together a vets’ event to counter Hackett’s military appeal. Marine Corps Reserve Colonel Danny Bubp, a local Republican state representative, was sweating in his dress uniform and telling the crowd that as a military officer, “one thing you don’t do is disparage your commander in chief.”

Col. Bubp on Hackett at the same event, from the Cincinnati Enquirer:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050801/NEWS01/508010350

Bubp - who, like Hackett, is a Marine Corps Reserve officer - stood under the helicopter's wings in his military dress uniform, saying that the one thing military officers do not do "is criticize their commander in chief."

"I served for eight years under a president who loathed the military but we never said a word about it," Bubp said.

I did find this blurb that says Bubp served at the US Central Command during the Iraq war:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/29/loc_ohiohouse88dist29.html

Bubp represented the West Union School District in the Ten Commandments court battle, and during the Iraq war, the Marine Reserve colonel worked at U.S. Central Command.

Look, I know Colonel Bubp is 63, and likes to make last-minute phone calls urging Jean Schmidt to smear Democrats. That's clear.

But since when is does it honor the Marine Corps Code of Conduct to smear fellow, currently-serving officers, let alone retired ones, let alone retired, decorated veterans such as John Murtha?