Jean Schmidt's Idiocy Never Ceases To Amaze

Yesterday I linked to what I consider to be the best politcal ad so far this season. It's an ad produced by Victoria Wulsin's campaign. Wulsin is running against "Mean Jean" Schmidt, the Ohio congresswoman who last year called Jack Murtha a coward during open debate in the House. Well, Schmidt has responded to this ad:

Rep. Jean Schmidt blasted Democrat Victoria Wulsin on Wednesday for allegedly breaking a U.S. House rule that prohibits using the broadcast of House floor proceedings in campaign ads.

"Her continued violation will land her in serious trouble with the House Ethics Committee," Schmidt's spokesman Matt Perin said in a release, referring to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, which the release mistakenly referred to elsewhere as the "House Committee on Official Standards and Conduct."

Besides those errors, there's just one more tiny problem: Wulsin, who is challenging Schmidt in the 2nd District, is not a member of the House. Not yet anyway.

Wulsin's new ad shows Schmidt telling Democratic Rep. John Murtha that "cowards cut and run, Marines never do."

Schmidt, a Miami Township Republican, was booed after her Nov. 18, 2005, speech. It's against House rules to refer to another lawmaker by name or to disparage him on the House floor.

"The only person in this race who has broken House rules is Jean Schmidt," Wulsin spokesman Ady Barkan said. "If she didn't want people to see this ad, then she shouldn't have given that speech."

I have no doubt that Mean Jean will be making an appearance in this Monday's Top Ten Conservative Idiots.