Among the people that live in the tent village erected by Occupy DC protesters at McPherson Square in Washington, ‘Republican’ is almost a dirty word.
“You say the word ‘Republican’ and people mentally shut down,” Jonathan Bremer said of his fellow protesters.
Which makes McPherson Square seem an unlikely place to find Republican presidential candidate backers. But that’s exactly what The Daily Caller found in a small enclave of Ron Paul supporters.
A lone green tent and a couple of folding chairs make up the base camp for the small group of Paul supporters.
Bremer said that at first he and others were harassed and asked to leave, but he thinks they’re starting to change some minds.
“There’s a lot of common ground we share, a lot of common interest,” Bremer said. Could libertarianism be the answer both sides of the aisle are searching for?