I love American Politics - Huck and Chuck

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The candidate has been accompanied of late by Chuck Norris, the tough-guy actor and martial arts icon whose face, Mr. Huckabee said, “would be on Mount Rushmore except the granite wasn’t strong enough for his beard.â€

Mr. Norris can at times seem like a distracting relic of Mr. Huckabee’s “nothing to lose†days. In Concord on Friday, Mr. Huckabee addressed a packed news conference to introduce his new campaign chairman, Ed Rollins, the longtime Republican operative. Mr. Norris stood silently off to the side, and it was unclear why he was there at all, except to sign autographs for a few reporters afterward. When asked what he felt he added to the Huckabee campaign, Mr. Norris said simply, “Nothing,†before posing for a few more pictures and leaving.

But the Huck and Chuck show plays well in the burly men circles that tend to vote Republican, if not always in primaries. In the northern New Hampshire outpost of Berlin on Saturday, a crowd heavy with teenagers and young men jammed the cafeteria of a small technical college, many clutching photos of Mr. Norris.

Lawrence Thompson, a 19-year-old dishwasher wearing an AC/DC sweatshirt, approached Mr. Norris and asked if he could be photographed bowing before the actor. Mr. Norris obliged, and Mr. Thompson declared his “worship†for The Man, if not The Candidate. “I’m still doing that whole research thing,†Mr. Thompson said of Mr. Huckabee.

full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/us/polit...nyt&emc=rss

Edited December 19, 2007 by The Gus

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Yes, our politics can be funny.

The candidate has been accompanied of late by Chuck Norris, the tough-guy actor and martial arts icon whose face, Mr. Huckabee said, “would be on Mount Rushmore except the granite wasn’t strong enough for his beard.â€

Mr. Norris can at times seem like a distracting relic of Mr. Huckabee’s “nothing to lose†days. In Concord on Friday, Mr. Huckabee addressed a packed news conference to introduce his new campaign chairman, Ed Rollins, the longtime Republican operative. Mr. Norris stood silently off to the side, and it was unclear why he was there at all, except to sign autographs for a few reporters afterward. When asked what he felt he added to the Huckabee campaign, Mr. Norris said simply, “Nothing,†before posing for a few more pictures and leaving.

But the Huck and Chuck show plays well in the burly men circles that tend to vote Republican, if not always in primaries. In the northern New Hampshire outpost of Berlin on Saturday, a crowd heavy with teenagers and young men jammed the cafeteria of a small technical college, many clutching photos of Mr. Norris.

Lawrence Thompson, a 19-year-old dishwasher wearing an AC/DC sweatshirt, approached Mr. Norris and asked if he could be photographed bowing before the actor. Mr. Norris obliged, and Mr. Thompson declared his “worship†for The Man, if not The Candidate. “I’m still doing that whole research thing,†Mr. Thompson said of Mr. Huckabee.

full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/us/polit...nyt&emc=rss

[Guest Rick James]