South Carolina’s beloved governor Nikki Haley surprised a packed audience in the Potomac when she came onstage to introduce former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

She didn’t pull any punches. She immediately went after President Obama and Washington D.C.

“It good to be back in Washington! Not Really,” she laughed. “The President and Washington DC is the hardest part of being governor of SC.”

She then went through a litany of oppressive Washington policies that set up a favorite line of hers.

“Now they are trying push Obamacare on South Carolina, to bust our budgets and force us to expand Medicaid,” she said. “Not in South Carolina!”

Haley, the first woman to be governor of South Carolina and the second Indian-American governor in the country, then introduced a person for whom she campaigned hard in the recent presidential election, former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney.

“A leader fights and goes through a challenging race and when it doesn’t go our way, what makes a true servant leader is when they come back to talk about it,” she said of Romney.