# College Republican punches Kerry supporting teacher's foot with his leg **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2004, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296 "2004-11-01T10:59:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/1 "2004-11-01T10:59:23Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041030/ap\_on\_fe\_st/politics\_student\_kicked\_2](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041030/ap_on_fe_st/politics_student_kicked_2) First, he has the nerve to smack her foot with his leg just because she didn’t like his pro-Bush shirt. Now, Fort Lewis College student Mark O’Donnell is refusing to accept Maria Spero’s plea of ignorance. > [@](#): > > “I acted entirely inappropriately by kicking you, giving vent to a thoughtless knee-jerk political reaction that should never have happened,” she wrote. “Before the incident, I did not know you and that you are a Fort Lewis student.” Lucky for her that her knee jerked, else his leg might have struck her book bag. At first, she was angry that he didn’t slap her foot with his penis: > [@](#): > > Spero then said “she should have kicked me harder and higher,” said O’Donnell. The university didn’t even apologize to her, and instead made O’Donnell out to be the victim. And the cops, believe it or not, are issuing a misdemeanor summons to _her_. Next thing you know, Republicans will be slapping people’s hands with their faces. ---
**Author:** ![ShockingAlberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@ShockingAlberto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShockingAlberto)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/2 "2004-11-01T11:03:38Z")
It took me far too long to get that. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/3 "2004-11-01T11:35:44Z")
> [@](#): > > It took me far too long to get that. Count yourself lucky. I’m still trying to figure it out. I mean, I get the whole victim-agressor reversal bit, but the actual point, not so much. Is this some sort of “true colors” rant, or what, exactly? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/4 "2004-11-01T11:50:15Z")
Oh, it’s just a good-natured asteismus epitrope. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/5 "2004-11-01T11:57:24Z")
That’s easy for you to say. ---
**Author:** ![ShockingAlberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@ShockingAlberto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShockingAlberto)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/6 "2004-11-01T12:25:33Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > That’s easy for you to say. It wasn’t even easy for me to read. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/7 "2004-11-01T12:41:49Z")
I was going to bitch about having to read about every single incidence of meanness by anyone remotely connected to a political group. Now I’ll just give my usual response to Liberal - confused disbelief. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/8 "2004-11-01T12:49:44Z")
It’s one of those confession things: My name is **Liberal** , and I’m barking mad. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/9 "2004-11-01T13:04:40Z")
Another PR hit for the political party of tolerance and acceptance. Man, that’s a shame. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/10 "2004-11-01T13:07:34Z")
Just goes to show you the new depths to which the Repugs have sunk. I mean, installing _shoe magnets_ in their _shins_ that attract only Democrat footwear? Brilliant, yet despicably evil. The after-work physicist in me cannot help but wonder which force is at work here. Did the GOP conduct secret research to determine the true nature of gravitation, alter the properties of the gravitic particle/wave to reflect not upon mass but upon a certain combination of personal belief system and leather, and multiply the force/distance ratio billionfold? Did they instead determine a way to apply the strong nuclear force not only to a particle, but to a macroscopic quantum system of their own definition, allowing them to apply a split-second attraction in the geometric center of the airspace between foot and leg? Is it evidence that the next step toward Unified Field Theory is contingent upon the progeny of George W. Bush ascending to the presidency? Inquiring minds want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/11 "2004-11-01T13:17:50Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Another PR hit for the political party of tolerance and acceptance. Man, that’s a shame. OK. Here’s the actual story. Some white racist asshole pubbie shows up wearing a T-Shirt that says “College Republicans: Work for us now … or work for us later”. He gets a kick in the shins from a Latino teacher. Boo fucking hoo. Shove your “tolerance and acceptance” up your ass, you sad, sorry, fuck. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/12 "2004-11-01T13:44:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Shove your “tolerance and acceptance” up your ass, you sad, sorry, fuck. Worthy of a T-shirt in itself, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/13 "2004-11-01T13:56:07Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > The after-work physicist in me cannot help but wonder which force is at work here. Did the GOP conduct secret research to determine the true nature of gravitation, alter the properties of the gravitic particle/wave to reflect not upon mass but upon a certain combination of personal belief system and leather, and multiply the force/distance ratio billionfold? Did they instead determine a way to apply the strong nuclear force not only to a particle, but to a macroscopic quantum system of their own definition, allowing them to apply a split-second attraction in the geometric center of the airspace between foot and leg? Is it evidence that the next step toward Unified Field Theory is contingent upon the progeny of George W. Bush ascending to the presidency? Uh… _points to mouth_ Pie goes in here. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/14 "2004-11-01T14:03:24Z")
STOP THE PRESSES! Smarmy partisan pisses off hot-tempered partisan. Incredibly mild violence ensues, followed by apology. Film at eleven! How on earth is this remotely newsworthy? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/15 "2004-11-01T14:13:35Z")
> [@Desmostylus](#): > > OK. Here’s the actual story. > > Some **white racist asshole** pubbie shows up wearing a T-Shirt that says “College Republicans: Work for us now … or work for us later”. He gets a kick in the shins from a Latino teacher. Boo fucking hoo. Unless I’m being whooshed --which is entirely possible as I’m posting pre-caffeination-- I’m going to have to ask for a cite on the bolded material, please. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/16 "2004-11-01T14:17:32Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > STOP THE PRESSES! > > Smarmy partisan pisses off hot-tempered partisan. Incredibly mild violence ensues, followed by apology. Film at eleven! > > How on earth is this remotely newsworthy? > > Daniel Because if any liberal ever acts with anything less than total Jesus-like tolerance of even the most obnoxious asshole conservative, it’s proof that all of liberalism is a sham. I think that’s what “Liberal” and Bricker are trying to say. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/17 "2004-11-01T14:19:15Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > Unless I’m being whooshed --which is entirely possible as I’m posting pre-caffeination-- I’m going to have to ask for a cite on the bolded material, please. The racist charge is a crock of shit. But the asshole charge seems pretty well-supported: that T-shirt isn’t one that’s worn by a decent human being. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/18 "2004-11-01T14:26:31Z")
This is what it comes down to: against [piles and piles of underhanded voter suppression tactics by the GOP](http://vote2004.eriposte.com/), all the GOP partisans have to complain about is the isolated behavior of a few individual Dem partisans. Yeah, it’s wrong and I’ll condemn the behavior, but so what? I can’t even keep up with all the bad shit that the GOP has been doing [from](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-voter-scam,1,3194538.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines) [coast](http://www.scdp.org/press/voterletter.jpg) [to](http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1097647496301300.xml&storylist=orlocal) [coast](http://www.bend.com/news/ar_view%5E3Far_id%5E3D18796.htm#no-hash). Here’s something to brighten up your morning: [in which the FL GOP is more stupid than evil, but mostly really really desperate](http://laweekly.blogs.com/joshuah_bearman/2004/10/how_they_do_par_1.html). ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/19 "2004-11-01T14:40:23Z")
I’d like to know **Bricker** ’s reaction to widespread chicanery by the GOP. Since he’ so shocked and horrifed by one Democratic partisan’s misbehavior, I’m sure he’ll denounce massive vote suppression and downright fraud orchestrated by the RNC. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296/20 "2004-11-01T15:00:48Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Another PR hit for the political party of tolerance and acceptance. Man, that’s a shame. “O’Donnell said the apology wasn’t enough and he plans to file a complaint with the college.” I thought the Republicans were opposed to things like frivilous complaints and litigation? The bonehead Democrat apologized for her action…but “an apology is NOT enough”? Huh. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-republican-punches-kerry-supporting-teachers-foot-with-his-leg/272296.md?page=2)