Schmidt doesn't understand what the fuss is about, sees herself as victim

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Freshman Republican Weathers Backlash
Schmidt Says She Meant No Insult to Murtha

By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Rep. Jean Schmidt flung the word "coward" at a decorated war veteran from Pennsylvania last week, but the Ohio Republican's comments landed with a splat in her own Cincinnati district, where some supporters are backing away as she scrambles to explain what she meant.

Judging by her words yesterday -- the first after avoiding the public for three days -- Schmidt doesn't understand what the fuss is about, and sees herself more as victim than villain. "I am amazed at what a national story this has become," she said in a statement. "I have been attacked very personally, continuously since Friday evening."

"There's no way that I remotely tried to impugn his character," Rep. Jean Schmidt said of her remarks on the House floor directed to Rep. John P. Murtha during debate on Iraq war policy. (By Michael E. Keating -- Cincinnati Enquirer Via Associated Press)

Many people are unsympathetic. NBC's "Saturday Night Live" lampooned her, the Cincinnati Enquirer's editorial page -- which endorsed her congressional bid -- said she was "way out of line," and the friend she claimed to be quoting on the House floor last week declared yesterday that he had said no such thing.

Schmidt, Congress's newest member, vaulted from obscurity with inflammatory comments during a House debate over whether to promptly withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, as has been proposed by Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.). Murtha is a 31-year House veteran and longtime military hawk who fought in Vietnam and Korea as a Marine.

Her district made a HUGE mistake sending her to Congress instead of Paul Hackett.

buh-bye.

by time this assclown is through with her term I'm sure they'll give her her walking papers. "I've been attacked very personally . . . blah, blah, blah. What did she expect after her very personal attack on Rep Murtha. She is a very real poster child for the RW congress.

As SOON as they get called on their lies and other horsecrap, they immediately start whining at the top of their lungs and cry-babying and try and turn themselves into a victim.

"Those nasty Democrats are picking on us again"

Yeah, well we wouldn't be picking on you if you weren't such a bunch of lying shitbags would we?

Get over it Jean, your flaws are showing.

Don't they realize how freakin' tired that excuse is getting?? :crazy:

"The Clenis made me do it!"

Damn, that Clenis is SURE an impressive thing, it's responsible for EVERYTHING :)

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Hurricane Katrina...DAMN that Clenis is POWERFUL.


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It hath supplanted the devil lol!

Even better, she has to defend her seat in 2006!

I think I found my new argument for this attack too.

"Yeah, well we wouldn't be picking on you if you weren't such a bunch of lying shitbags would we?"

Feel free to use that line whenever you feel like :)

You can wait until AFTER Thanksgiving to mail me your check...;)

Beee-yotch!!!!

:P

An old friend came in from out of town, my tux didn't come back from the cleaners, my car broke down, there was a terrible earthquake, a flood, locusts... it wasn't my fault!

Schmidt IS a victim. I mean, it sure looks like someone beat the hell outta her with the ugly stick.

check post 18

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A dance performed by republicans every time they are called out for remarks.
1. Open mouth
2. Insert Foot
3. Deny you ever said it
4. Claim you were misquoted
5. It is all the liberal media's fault
6. It is Clinton's fault

always works for them.LOL

She's a victim of her own idiocy.

Maybe as a Congressperson, she just can't Hackett.

Katherine "Cruella" Harris.

and smears a decorated war hero in the process while dragging another through the muck. is she a cousin of kkk rove?

of kkkatherine harris check out post 39-seperated at birth.

It was obvious that she wasn't "all there" during the campaign, and now it's clear that she's really f..king nuts.

Classic sign of psycopathy - inability to empathize of discern negative effect upon others. Completely egocentric world view.

"A few minutes ago, I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do."

She's another R POS who thought she could say anything she wanted to with impugnity. And why shouldn't she think that? Purple Heart band aids, swift-boating of Kerry. It's all SOP for the GOP.

Adios, witch..........................

because why should you not be attacked personally? You attacked Murtha personally, right? And WTF is this nonsense about not even "remotely" trying to impugn Murtha's character? You called the man a coward. In your little world, is a referring to a war-decorated Marine veteran as a coward not a character asassination?

How dare you? And now you feel sorry for yourself because all the bad people who know what is going on are calling you names and expressing hatred for you? Tut-tut, little nobody, but I strongly suggest you sort of get more acquainted with the feeling, cause it will be around for awhile. You might want to know that the whole world is not your little piece of Ohio, where your right-wing craziness gets 'em all worked up at the polls.

Are you and your nut-job lunatic buddies so jaded that you think that crap pulled on John Kerry is just available to you every time you choose to throw it around? Sur-fucking-prise, Jean, it ain't gonna be that way. So my suggestion is that you low-life little nobodys get yourselves a new game plan. And maybe your ex-buddy Bubp might need more than that old marine uniform to help you in that next election. Your sorry ass is going home.

So there it is--liar, or stupid? Or both?

Fucking c*nt.

can't even get an email through.

Somebody gave her the idea that she had a whole lot more power, as a newby, than she does, and she fell for it! She'll never get elected again, even in her little red corner of Ohio.

Slime, lie, back peddle. She will go far.

That's what happens when you display your stupidity on the world stage. Sometimes it is better if the stupid among us keep it private. Looks like Jean's finding this out the hard way.

I think it's fabulous! :toast:

Juile

because they are so accustomed to getting away with every stupid thing they say.

Yup,when things get nasty claim that YOUR the victim,not someone like Mackris or Murtha. Claim the media is out to destroy you blah,blah,blah...

Same old bait and switch bullshit.....

it's never their fault..it's always someone else's fault when they screw up..they don't take personal responsibility and that's why they will never evolve.

Poor Poor widdle little meanjean..did somebody put words in your mouth on the floor of Congress and make you say all those bad slurs at Congressman Murtha?

Can it be that jean schmidt is the Coward?

Mike Malloy is right. Jean Schmidt is a BITCH!

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