Hey, you socialist hippie weirdos! Hey, you boot-heel-licking fascist twerps! Group hug! That was essentially the vibe in Nashville on Thursday night, as a rare rash of love broke out across the political divide between Occupy Nashville protesters and a conservative counter-protesting group. Jeff Woods, a writer with the Nashville Scene newspaper, reports that a “shouting, sign-waving band of Vanderbilt young Republicans” marched onto Nashville’s downtown Legislative Plaza to stage a public response to the local iteration of the Occupy movement. The Republicans were met with a chant of “We Love You!” from the Occupy Nashville crowd. Woods observed that the Republicans were “undeterred by their warm welcome” at first, chanting, “Occupy the White House! Fire Obama!” But minutes later, the goodwill reportedly caught on, and the scene began to resemble something like the famous World War I Christmas truce on the battlefields of Flanders.
via Occupy Nashville vs. GOP confrontation turns into love fest – latimes.com.