Reply #14: A group of Anarchists confronts them, saying they want to talk issues.

[madfloridian]

The headline tells that the reporter really gets it.

Lowering the discourse at the top of their lungs

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05201/540552.stm

"Members of a local group called Anti-Racist Action unfurled a blue tarp spray-painted with the words "We Bash Back" and argued with the roughly 16 GOP activists, taking pains to say they weren't Dean supporters.

"We would like to talk about serious issues, like war, racism, poverty, reproductive rights," Jules Bonnot, 21, of Bloomfield, told a reporter.

A Duquesne University student named Dan, holding a poster that said "I the GOP," stepped up to resume the contest. "Howard Dean is gay," he said, and was immediately surrounded and lectured by the anarchists."

I rather admire one of the Republican protestors who sort of had some common sense.

Swanke, of Shaler, said he cut his performance short to avoid a confrontation. He said that in the spirit of free speech, he respected the counter-protesters for what they were doing.

"Four years at Pitt make you realize it's not worth getting into fights and yelling at people."

Neal Andrus, left, a member of the Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania and a South Sider, engages in a high-volume exchange of political discourse with Alex Bradley, of Bloomfield.