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February 14, 2008
Carcieri endorses John McCain for president
WARWICK -- Governor Carcieri, who originally supported former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the 2008 presidential race, gave a ringing endorsement today to Sen. John McCain.
"I'm going to do everything I possibly can" to make sure that he's the next president, Carcieri said minutes ago.
More than 1,000 McCain supporters are gathered to hear a speech from the first major presidential candidate to visit Rhode Island in this election cycle.
Among those in the crowd are some of his old Naval Academy classmates, including Ed Clune, of North Kingstown, and George Brenner, from Newport.
They were both in the class of 1958 with McCain.
“He was a great guy, a real character,” Brenner said of his former schoolmate. “He was always straightforward and very hard-nosed.”
Clune called McCain a “man’s man. He liked to party, he liked women, he liked sports -- he was just one of those guys, very charismatic, the kind of guy everyone liked.”
When asked if he thought he saw McCain as a future president, Brennar said “actually, I thought it more likely that he would become an admiral like his grandfather and father before him. But now that you think of it,” he added, “I’m not surprised because he’s a real leader.”
Adding to his classmates endorsement, is Mitt Romney, who, officials tell the Associated Press, will endorse McCain today.
Journal staff writer Scott MacKay with reports from the Associated Press
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Carcieri endorses McCain? *Yawn*
Wake me up when Barack Obama is in town. Now THAT will be exciting.