[CounterCounterCulture]

Saw a video of it on my local station. Frankly from what I saw, the Bush supporters came off as, pardon the expression, bush league. That's something I'd expect of the Deaniacs.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Yes. They don't help the cause.

[Tall_Texan]

OK, which FReepers were there?

[america-rules]

Is was at a Joan Jett concert 20 years ago at an Air Base in Japan. A bunch of Marines went wild and they kicked the asses of about 50 SP's !

The concert ended !

[Greenpees]

Joan Jett, albiet a "has been" will do USO shows in he nastiest places, Iraq, wherever. She may not be the classiest, but deserves some respect for her work w/ the troops.

I think the college Republicans ought to understand what party they represent, and act like true representatives, not reptiles.

This story is too bad.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The rally featured comedian Janene Garafalo

I'm not really familiar with Iowa but are they so behind the times that they have to import angry unfunny lesbians?

[APFel]

Quit pushing Joan Jett around.

Perhaps we should email these guys and tell them that if they want to form a goon squad, do it under a different flag.

APf

[hellinahandcart]

Saw a video of it on my local station

You're way ahead of us, then. This article SUCKS.

But there's a lesson here about "the company you keep". I am always wary of newbies who sign up here and immediately post a "Hey kids!! Let's put on a Counter-protest!!!" article. We had a small flood of those last year before the Iraq war, and some of them turned out to be high school students. It's a good thing they never got anything off the ground. For all we know, any of these strangers could have done something equally disgraceful, and there we'd have been with our "FreeRepublic.com" signs and egg on our faces.

I'd like to tell Jason Cole to get off our side...

[sneakers]

My son - a freshman at our local university - just announced he is joining the College Republicans. I'm very pleased. We have a really nice bunch of young men and women in our local group. They have always done us proud. I would be very surprised if they carried on like this crowd.

[Lee'sGhost]

Does Jett still look like an extra from Michael Jackson's "Thriller?" Somebody post a pix. I would submit that the Pubbies in attendance were driven insane by her appearance and were simply trying to escape what they thought was certain death by an ascending demon from hell.

[em2vn]

How do we know they were Republicans? The story may say so but what an obvious ploy to advance Dean's campaign.
Also, they may have simply been seven drunks who had no idea what a political party is. Can't be,that would have made them liberals

[sauropod]

College Republicans do tend to be mouthy. OTOH, a lot of the Deaniacs are exactly the same as the ANSWER crowd.

[Constantine XIII]

Yup, that was dumb. We don't beat up girls. :/

[weegee]

I don't know what it means but the article is offline on that website. I heard about this on the radio, went to Google News and searched. The site came up but no article.

The source link is also dead now.

Maybe the report had some errors.

[rintense]

What an idiot. There is no way I'd mess with Joan Jett.