John McCain endorsed Mitt Romney in a rally at Central High School in Manchester, N.H., in the same gymnasium where the man who beat McCain for the presidency, Barack Obama, held his own rally early last month.
McCain was accompanied by his wife Cindy, who walked in with Ann Romney, Mitt's spouse. Also on hand were Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas, who introduced former Gov. John Sununu, who introduced Sen. Kelly Ayotte
The engineer of the November 2010 GOP landslide that took back the New Hampshire State House, Sununu gave a rousing endorsement of Romney as a moderate Republican who matured as a politician while governor of Massachusetts. He then brought on Ayotte, who in turn, introduced Romney and McCain.
The entrance of the two former political rivals brought the crowd of over 200 to their feet with a standing ovation.
American Dream
Mitt Romney spoke first, talking about his belief in America.
Romney's campaign theme is that Barack Obama's policies not only are economic poison but are un-American and contradict the intent of the Founding Fathers, who in declaring that Americans had the right to the pursuit of happiness, guaranteed them their economic freedom. Economic freedom makes America the greatest country on earth, Romney said.
He denounced Obama as representing those who wanted to pick the pocket of industrious citizens and redistribute it to others.
"I am going to stand up for the American Dream and save it for future generations," Romney declared.
Catapult
Then, it was McCain's chance to speak. After kidding Mitt for his eight-vote landslide in Iowa, he gave a passionate endorsement for Romney, whom he battled for the 2008 GOP nomination.
McCain, a Granite State favorite who won the New Hampshire primary in 2000 and 2008, was animated and on fire.
"I'm really here for one reason and one reason only," McCain shouted, "and that is that we make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States and New Hampshire is the state that will catapult him on to victory in a very short period of time! And that's why I'm here."
The pugnacious McCain seemed to be animated by a personal animus against Obama, whom he denounced for weakening the United States military.
Questions
Romney took questions from the crowd and ran into some turbulence when he was questioned over corporate responsibility by an Occupy Wall Street representative and characterized as racist by a Chinese immigrant.
A former financier, Romney handled the anti-capitalist activist with relish and aplomb. No politician has been so committed to the promotion of business since the 1920s, when Sinclair Lewis wrote Babbitt and Calvin Coolidge said, "The business of America is business." The OWS supporter didn't have a chance.
A Chinese-American woman denounced attacks on China as "degrading" and said trickle-down economics didn't help her. Romney asked her "where it's better to live, where the income per person is better than America?"
Taking umbrage, the woman told him not to put any Asians down.
"I hope I haven't put any Asians down," he said. "One of the great things about America is that we are a nation of immigrants. And I welcome people who come here from other lands. I love legal immigration, and if I'm President of the United States, we'll have more if it."
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