mean Jeans marine: low-level right-wing operative

[donsu]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/who-is-mean-jeans-marine_b_10993.html

Who Is Mean Jean's Marine? And Why Does He Think Murtha's A Coward?


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A quick glance at Bubp's background reveals him to be a low-level right-wing operative who has spent more time in the past ten years engaged in symbolic Christian right crusades than he has battling terrorist evil-doers. And throughout his career, Bubp's destiny has been inextricably linked with Schmidt's. Bubp may be a Marine, but his view of Murtha as a "coward" is colored by naked political ambition. He is nothing more than cheap camouflage cover for the GOP's latest Swift-Boat campaign.

March 1999 marked the beginning of a brilliant career. It was then that Bubp became pro-bono legal counsel for Adams County for the Ten Commandments, an ad-hoc Ohio group formed to keep 10 Commandments monuments displayed in local public schools after the ACLU filed a lawsuit demanding their removal. Bubp was assisted by a Who's Who of Christian right leaders, including James Dobson, Don Wildmon, Judge Roy Moore and Jay Sekulow. The campaign was organized primarily by Rev. Rob Schenck, a former leader of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, who was once detained for threating Bill Clinton's afterlife at the National Cathedral. (Read my profile of Schenck for the Washington Monthly for the full story on this, and many more bizarre stunts).

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Bubp was elected despite a successful legal maneuver by his former primary challenger to unseal his divorce file. Bubp fought tooth-and-nail to keep these records in the dark because, according to the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, "the file does contain sensitive tax and personal information he'd just as soon keep private." Whatever information emerged was overlooked by a local press focused on national races.

During the campaign, Bubp still found time to help his friend, Schmidt, who was struggling to counter the momentum of her Democratic challenger, Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett. At a Schmidt rally falsely billed as an event to honor war veterans, Bubp appeared in full Marine battle dress uniform to attack Hackett for criticizing his "Commander in Chief." " "I served for eight years under a president who loathed the military," Bubp said, referring to Clinton. "But we never said a word about it."
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the article also showed a possible couple:

"Bubp and Schmidt were honored this month by the Rev. Rob Schenck with the "Ten Commandments Leadership Award." Presented with personalized 10 Commandments plaques by a man who once attempted to hand an aborted fetus to Bill Clinton, they became decorated veterans of the right's culture war."

[BJW]

1. Love it --"Mean Jean's MINO Marine"--Col. Weenie!!!!

[ptolle]

2. meteoric

Halley's comet and a republican telling the truth share a common trait. It happens twice in a lifetime if you are lucky.
Both of these S-balls are going to crash and burn with a resounding thud. It's not like the GOPers in Ohio have a good name to start with what with coingate,abramoff/nye, and election irregularities and all I'd say one more formerly red state is probably going to turn, if not blue then purple in a big way.I also especially loved how all the big brave chickenhawk GOPers in the house picked a woman their absolutely most junior member to hide behind for this assault on Murtha.But, come to think of it it is just perpetuating their usual modus operandi.

[motocicleta]

3. Bubp is probably a loser (I'm an Oregonian living in MA, so I don't know)

but he says he that's not what he told Schmidt.
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051122/NEWS01/511220352
She made it up, or he's willing to let her dangle because he can see the wheels coming off. Either way, I'm whistling a happy tune.