OWS vs. Romneybots Outside GOP Concord Debate

Ron Paul truck rolls through Concord, NH. CONCORD, NH –Loud, sign-waving supporters
of the Republican presidential candidates created a festive
atmosphere here outside this morning’s NBC debate. The impressive
turnout filled both sidewalks outside the Capitol Centre for the
Arts. Supporters of the Republican candidates were not alone.
Activists from the United Auto Workers and the Occupy movement were
in attendance, bothering Romney supporters with an unoriginal
chant: 

“Hey hey! Hoho! Romney greed has got to go,” they shouted while
mingling with the Romney people. 

Romney supporters tried to drown out the protestors, but they
failed. The frontrunner’s team needs to work on its chant
coordination. 

Supporters for Romney’s one time major rival, Rick Perry, were
nowhere in sight. The Texas governor has all but given up on New
Hampshire. 

Across the street Orthodox Jews from the organization Neturei Karta International were
protesting Israel. They have been in the Granite State since
yesterday and they plan on going to events for Romney and Ron Paul
later in the day. According to photocopied flyers they were passing
out they are an “anti-Zionist Jewish” organization. 

The Paul supporters were out in force passing out the legendary
Super
Brochure
as well as waving homemade signs. One large sign on
the back of truck touted Paul’s strong support from the military.
The Brochure is a double sided glossy pamphlet the size of two
regular sheets of paper. Nobody from any of the other candidates or
protest groups outside the debate was handing out anything as
intricate as this. 

“This has information, if you’re trying to educate yourself this
is it,” said Manchester native Ann Buchman after I asked her about
the small font in the brochure. 

The 27-year-old welder called the brochure a great tool to help
persuade people. “It’s not geared toward one specific topic,” she
noted. “It’s got the range of his beliefs.”

“And the pictures, are awesome,” she said.

In the spin room after the debate,
Mitt Romney and Sen. Scott Brown advisor Eric Fehrnstrom
said
he is confident that Brown (R-Massachusetts) will defend his Senate
seat against Elizabeth Warren this November because “people are
comfortable with” his brand of Republicanism: 

Also in the spin room, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) declined to
say how his foreign policy differs from his father’s:Â