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Huckabee brings out Chuck Norris for ad

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor November 19, 2007 11:48 AM


For his first television ad, Mike Huckabee mixes humor, policy, and celebrity to produce a rather unusual spot for presidential politics.

The 60-second spot features Chuck Norris, the iconic movie toughman who is Huckabee's best-known supporter. "My plan for secure the borders? Two words: Chuck Norris," Huckabee says.

The ad then alternates between Norris vouching for Huckabee as a supporter of gun owner rights, proponent of getting rid of the Internal Revenue Service (through a national retail tax), and "principled, authentic conservative," and Huckabee making fun of Norris's tough-guy reputation.

Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, has been surging in the Iowa polls to a strong second place behind Mitt Romney on the Republican side. So it's an interesting choice for an introductory TV ad, which is typically more biographical or resume-driven.

21 comments so far...
  1. It is refreshing to see a little levity injected into the race at a time when some candidates are more interested in attacking each other than presenting their own views. But levity aside, Huckabee’s message rings true. I urge you to support Mike Huckabee and take my challenge by visiting: www.abuckforhuck.com With your help, he will make a difference!

    Posted by I Like Mike November 20, 07 02:58 PM
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  1. Thats Great!! I love it. We need someone with a sense of humor and good judgement!!

    Posted by Brad November 20, 07 05:40 PM
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  1. Does anyone else see the similarities to former President Reagan? In the race to see who's more conservative, I think Mike's got it in a bag.

    Posted by Jacob W November 21, 07 01:07 AM
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  1. I've been impressed with Huckabee for quite a while based ONLY on his appearance of quiet confidence and seemingly conservative persona. I'm seriously thinking about him, even if that lousy actor is for him.

    Posted by Howard Veit November 22, 07 08:05 AM
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  1. When Chuck Norris Jumps in a Lake the Chuck Doesn't get wet the Lake gets Chuck!

    Posted by Sean Ring November 22, 07 09:51 AM
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  1. huck doesnt have my vote in 08 but damn thats a pretty funny campaign ad! lol

    Posted by jen November 23, 07 03:25 AM
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  1. With Huck's under a mil cash on hand he won't be running this much
    which might not be a bad thing for him. Considering a good number of the Iowans(or whoever) that see this will not likely be familiar with the "Norris facts" internet meme and might be a little freaked out by this spot.

    Jacob W, you might be interested to see what Reagan actually had to say about one of the candidates.


    Posted by Andy November 23, 07 04:34 AM
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  1. Chuck Norris serves on the board of directors of the NCBCPS, an organization promoting the use of the Bible in public schools, and also speaks on behalf of organizations advocating prayer in public schools. Not with MY tax dollars.

    Posted by Entinlude November 27, 07 09:55 AM
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  1. Huckabee and Norris -- I like that combination. Now, if Mike would only appoint Chuck had of the CIA and FBI if elected. Now, that would be progess!!!

    Posted by Dave Woodyard December 8, 07 09:25 AM
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  1. Huckabee and Norris -- I like that combination. Now, if Mike would only appoint Chuck had of the CIA and FBI if elected. Now, that would be progess!!!

    Posted by Dave Woodyard December 8, 07 09:26 AM
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  1. Huckabee has my vote! Now only if Chuck Norris would be his running partner! :)

    Posted by Erin Simmons December 11, 07 01:56 PM
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  1. I think Huckabee and Norris are a great combination. They are strongin their religion. They believe in doing what the Bible says and they believe they fight for what is right.
    I think we need a preacher for a president. This whole nation is taking God out of everything and we need God back into what ever we do.

    I am voting for Huckabee to be President. And it would be nice to have Chuck Norris as Vice President beside of him.

    Posted by Crystal Shaver December 12, 07 11:36 AM
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  1. God can suck it. So can Chuck.

    Posted by Stjepan Bakrac January 4, 08 07:49 PM
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  1. Huckabees is a fundamentalist nut job. And for the people who think we need to get god back in government, you are full of it, this country was not founded by christians.

    http://www.ffrf.org/nontracts/xian.php

    Educate yourself, though I don't mind laughing at your ignorance.

    Posted by Tommy January 5, 08 02:41 PM
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  1. GOD bless Norris and Huckabee, And may God have mercy on those who do not beleive.

    Posted by Robert R January 6, 08 12:12 AM
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  1. I reckon the Chuckster could find Bin Laden with the handicap of a blindfold and George Bush as his sidekick

    Posted by Tiernan O Gorman January 7, 08 07:09 AM
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  1. As if we don't have enough religious nuts and right wing idiots! It's laughable the rubbish these people come out with - get a life and stop living by 2000 year fables!

    Posted by John Davis January 8, 08 09:08 AM
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  1. This whole thing strikes me as rather frightening. If this is what our country is coming to, where PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES are going to be using celebrities (Chuck Norris, at that) to promote their cause, I don't think I want to live here anymore. This is a SERIOUS thing, choosing our next president, and I don't want some guy who thinks its all a big joke to be leading our country.

    Plus, he favors the death penalty, gun ownership, and posting the 10 commandments in school (WHICH IS AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION, BY THE WAY). Why this guy is successful at all, I don't know. But it needs to end now.

    Posted by Nicki January 8, 08 11:07 AM
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  1. It's great to see a down-to-earth guy who does stuff like this. We need someone other than Serious George W.

    Posted by Jon February 5, 08 03:03 PM
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  1. Chuck Norris supports out troops. This means that Mike huckabee if elected will bring our troops home honorably. A new christian book unites all christians and Mormons together in order to win the white house. "Bible prophecies of 911." This published discovery reveals an ancient Bible prophecy where Iraq must be freed in the last days by a great eagle! Fellow Christian patriots,

    If a true Bible prophecy were being fulfilled today, would christians believe such were true? America faces the possibility of a left wing candidate becoming elected president this year. The left wing media relentlessly works to stir up and maintain hatred for the Iraqi war because they are assisting democratic candidates to win the White House by promising to pull the troops from Iraq.

    This means of surrender is proposed during a critical time when America faces the most dangerous enemies upon the earth having full intentions of attacking our great nation by any means possible! These enemies are plotting new attacks on America, which are driven by the very same hatred and fervor they intend for our friends in Israel.

    Suppose there were specific Bible prophecies deliberately written for 2008? There are certainly many prophecies written within the Bible which confuse Christians that are not yet fulfilled.

    If today's Christians truly believe in Bible prophecy, they must not only accept the reality that they live in a time when actual prophecies are soon to be fulfilled, but also that these events will come in a powerful way. Do we not already see the prophetic signs in the Middle East?

    Christians may very well doubt true prophetic events becoming fulfilled today because of Christian enthusiasts who have relentlessly spun Bible prophecy as they have interpreted isolated meanings into unrelated biblical context. They have done so for the sole purpose of making money.

    Did a genuine fulfillment of Bible prophecy recently happen in our day?

    A Christian in the United states was recently studying the Bible prophecies a few months back. He was honestly seeking a true scriptural understanding concerning passages which had caused millions of Christians confusion for thousands of years.

    Suddenly this man understands something truly amazing in his Bible and falls to his knees in tears.

    Like the brightness of the sun bursting forth from darkened clouds, he sees the entire episode of 9 /11 in every possible detail within the pages of the Holy Bible. He seriously pondered what just accured while experiencing great joy as he contemplated a reality that he alone had made a biblical discovery no other person on the earth knew anything about. He then began to ponder just how to inform others of this knowledge without sounding like another nut seeking attention around American airports. How he could he avoid sounding like someone seeking the limelight through fabricating some sensational and disjointed story? He could contain this news no longer, he told his friends, who naturally wondered if he had lost his reason after enjoying a long reputation of being known as a sound reasonable man.

    The astounding news about actual biblical evidence over 9 /11 is convincing to this man's neighbors and friends, even the local media investigated the matter, making this discovery into the news.

    Bookstores sell out a number of books in just days while Christians from Britain and Europe discover this matter and quickly sell out UK vendors.

    The national media was approached and deliberately ignored this discovery, refusing to investigate the possibility of any religious discovery bringing strong evidence of a "latter day Eagle" (America) prophetically entering into a modern Iraq soon after towers fall during a prophesied attack from hijacked "eagle wings."

    The last thing the liberals want is for this book to reach the light of day during this election year. This message is not just another manipulation of Bible text but reveals an intentional message written by true biblical prophets for you and this nation. We are trying to reach honest Christians who seek biblical truth.

    If you lived 60 years ago when the television was first invented you naturally wanted to witness this miracle yourself, rather than rely on the testimony of others. Unfortunately, the only way for this discovery to reach the masses before the election this November, means this information must come from one investigating Christian at a time.

    See.. Amazon.com
    or www.eternaltruth.net/bpo911.html
    or contact Paul at 208-251-3519

    Posted by Paul Gregersen February 10, 08 08:18 PM
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  1. A major christian publisher from Salem communications announced their
    press release concerning a discovery about Iraq being freed by great
    eagle wings (America) in latter day biblical prophecy. This is a literal
    Bible prophecy you can read from your own Bible!!

    Critics are even amazed with such a clear biblical message having no
    evidence of manipulation of scripture or text. No sub-planting
    of any unrelated context in order to manufacture a sensational

    and unfounded conclusion without substance.

    John McCain is making Iraq the central issue for this entire election year!
    This Iraq and 911 biblical discovery just published nationally could pit Democrats

    against the Holy Bible after their apposing of the war in Iraq.

    "Bible prophecies of 911"
    www.eternaltruth.net

    If a true Bible prophecy were being fulfilled today, would christians believe such were true? America faces the possibility of a left wing candidate becoming elected president this year. The left wing media relentlessly works to stir up and maintain hatred for the Iraqi war because they are assisting democratic candidates to win the White House by promising to pull the troops from Iraq.
    This means of surrender is proposed during a critical time when America faces the most dangerous enemies upon the earth having full intentions of attacking our great nation by any means possible! These enemies are plotting new attacks on America, which are driven by the very same hatred and fervor they intend for our friends in Israel.
    Suppose there were specific Bible prophecies deliberately written for 2008? There are certainly many prophecies written within the Bible which confuse Christians that are not yet fulfilled.

    If today's Christians truly believe in Bible prophecy, they must not only accept the reality that they live in a time when actual prophecies are soon to be fulfilled, but also that these events will come in a powerful way. Do we not already see the prophetic signs in the Middle East?
    Christians may very well doubt true prophetic events becoming fulfilled today because of Christian enthusiasts who have relentlessly spun Bible prophecy as they have interpreted isolated meanings into unrelated biblical context. They have done so for the sole purpose of making money.
    Did a genuine fulfillment of Bible prophecy recently happen in our day?

    A Christian in the United states was recently studying the Bible prophecies a few months back. He was honestly seeking a true scriptural understanding concerning passages which had caused millions of Christians confusion for thousands of years.

    Suddenly this man understands something truly amazing in his Bible and falls to his knees in tears.
    Like the brightness of the sun bursting forth from darkened clouds, he sees the entire episode of 9 /11 in every possible detail within the pages of the Holy Bible. He seriously pondered what just accured while experiencing great joy as he contemplated a reality that he alone had made a biblical discovery no other person on the earth knew anything about. He then began to ponder just how to inform others of this knowledge without sounding like another nut seeking attention around American airports. How he could he avoid sounding like someone seeking the limelight through fabricating some sensational and disjointed story? He could contain this news no longer, he told his friends, who naturally wondered if he had lost his reason after enjoying a long reputation of being known as a sound reasonable man.

    The astounding news about actual biblical evidence over 9 /11 is convincing to this man's neighbors and friends, even the local media investigated the matter, making this discovery into the news.

    Bookstores sell out a number of books in just days while Christians from Britain and Europe discover this matter and quickly sell out UK vendors.
    The national media was approached and deliberately ignored this discovery, refusing to investigate the possibility of any religious discovery bringing strong evidence of a "latter day Eagle" (America) prophetically entering into a modern Iraq soon after towers fall during a prophesied attack from hijacked "eagle wings."
    The last thing the liberals want is for this book to reach the light of day during this election year. This message is not just another manipulation of Bible text but reveals an intentional message written by true biblical prophets for you and this nation. We are trying to reach honest Christians who seek biblical truth.
    If you lived 60 years ago when the television was first invented you naturally wanted to witness this miracle yourself, rather than rely on the testimony of others. Unfortunately, the only way for this discovery to reach the masses before the election this November, means this information must come from one investigating Christian at a time.

    See.. Amazon.com
    or www.eternaltruth.net/bpo911.html
    or contact Paul at 208-3519

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    Posted by Ed Cook February 13, 08 11:29 AM
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