Ron Paul’s response: They’re “really nice, clean cut young people.”
Via Politico:
Ron Paul on Wednesday disputed reports that his supporters had joined forces with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators and engaged in violent behavior at various campaign stops in recent weeks, calling his young backers “really nice, clean cut young people.”
“They ought to just come and see the kind of young people who come and make tens if not hundreds of thousands of phone calls for us,” Paul said on Fox News the morning after the New Hampshire primary, responding to critics who have accused the candidate’s supporters of causing ruckus on the campaign trail.
As for the reports of rowdy behavior, Paul conceded that everyone has the right to demonstrate and practice civil disobedience.