A strange but funny ad from Mike Huckabee:
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18 Nov 2007 06:09 pm
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How very intelligently designed
Is this just a Youtube ad, or are they really putting this on the air?
Hillary needs kickass Cynthia Rothrock on board.
A Norris endorsement is sure to help win with the fundie-loon crowd, based on the things he writes for World Net Daily.
I want to dislike Huckabee, but I just can't.
Absolutely tremendous spot!!! Best I've seen in years...
The contrast with Mr. Mitt Every-Side-of-Every-Issue Super-Rich-Venture-Capitalist Wants-to-Become-a-God Romney couldn't be sharper...
This is a pretty smooth move on Huckabee's part. People on MSNBC and CNN are going to be talking about this ad tomorrow and what a great, nice, likeable guy he is. He's gonna get a ton of free air-time.
Too bad the writer's strike is still going on. This would be the perfect excuse for Conan to bust out The Lever.
I'm confused, am I supposed to watch a Chuck Norris movie, vote for Huckabee, or go buy a steak?
It's funny, but I agree with Ezra that it's probably not the best introduction to The Huckster. It almost comes across as a joke ad. Like the 'vote for me' parody campaign-ads for consumer goods that invariably show up in the middle of election season and are generally way less clever than they believe themselves to be.
I'm confused, am I supposed to watch a Chuck Norris movie, vote for Huckabee, or go eat at a chain steak restaurant?
It's funny, but I agree with Ezra that it's probably not the best introduction to The Huckster. It almost comes across as a joke ad. Like the 'vote for me' parody campaign-ads for consumer goods that invariably show up in the middle of election season and are generally way less clever than they believe themselves to be.
Truly brilliant! But consider this ad done by a talented YouTuber that is every bit as brilliant - even more so, but in a more thought-provoking way: What leadership looks like
(It's getting noticed ... no doubt by Huckabee's team, as well!)
It's a great ad, but I'm surprised that they didn't do a second take where he says "Chuck norris doesn't endorse, he tells the country, hMYVOICEJUSTCRACKEDow it's gonna be."
I mean if you're gonna project strength, can't have your voice crackin...
Can Chuck Norris beat the Patriots?
I'm skeptical.
Having an ad with Chuck is cool, but they could have gone for something more inspired than just ripping off the Facts About Chuck Norris website. Get your own material, chumps.
But at least they used the chin/fist line, which is probably my favorite.
Get your own material, chumps.
I meant Huckabee and his campaign/ad people were chumps, obviously not you, Chuck.
*gulp*
Oh yes: they have Sensei Chuck Norris.
Can Super Producer Jerry Bruckheimer be far behind?
When I was a kid I used to take karate lessons at this place and that guy was somehow connected with Norris; I'm forgetting what the deal was.
I'm not sure I would want to learn too many things from people intimately associated with some fellow that does infommercials for God (or whatever he does now; those Missing in Action films were fine second-rate knock-offs of Rambo though weren't they?).
I'm betting though that if I picked up where I left off I might well soon be prepared to take down seven ninja terrorists at once (an encounter which I believe to be highly probable in the next two or three years).
Truly brilliant! But consider this ad done by a talented YouTuber that is every bit as brilliant - even more so, but in a more thought-provoking way:
My thoughts were indeed provoked. How many lawsuits would result if Huck just took the ad and ran with it? Is there any way to get him to do that? Is the ad ever going to say anything? Why aren't there any chickens in the ad? Could the consul from Mexico's brand-new AR consulate be brought in for a cameo in the final version?
Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hfw4IQ19Rk
Great ad-- anything that registers with people who don't follow politics is a winner. This will generate a lot of buzz for Huckabee and they can keep plugging away with follow up ads.
Romney's only hope is to score the endorsement of a certain someone who eats his opponents brains and invented cocaine. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1696935
One name to remember every time you hear "Mike Huckabee": Wayne DuMond. And one fact to remember when you hear "Mike Huckabee": based on wingnut Clinton hatred Huckabee let this crazy self-castrato rapist-murderer DuMond out of jail, and sure enough, he went out and murdered another young woman, in another state! Republican Family Values at work!
If I think Walker, Texas Ranger was the worst TV show ever produced, then maybe I now think Mike Huckleberry is a moron.
Mike Andriessen (sp?),
Wow! That sounds almost as bad as what Dukakis did with Willie Horton!!
I am proud and a little bit unnerved that I picked Huckabee as the real Republican deal many months ago, when he was an asterisk. You can't see him and not believe he is a viable candidate--the only question was whether he could raise enough money to stay in the game until the other candidates exhausted each other and their supporters, and I think that's happening. Huckabee could win the nomination, and he would be (by far) the strongest Republican candidate in November.
I'd vote for a sack of peat moss on the Democratic ticket before I'd vote for Huckabee, but you have to admire political gifts when you see them, and he really is the best possible advocate for extreme social conservatism. It's ironic that if he doesn't get the nomination, it will be because he's considered too liberal on economic issues for the "Don't Tax Me, Dude!" plutocratic clique that calls the shots over there.
whether he could raise enough money to stay in the game until the other candidates exhausted each other and their supporters, and I think that's happening.
I'm not so sure. He had an online fundraising goal of $1 million or so for October, which he met, and a goal of a little more than $2 million for November, which he's not currently on track for. Overall I think you have to figure that he's on track to raise $5-6 million in the fourth quarter, which is really pretty anemic. Not that it would force him to drop out, but how is he going to promote himself nationwide with that kind of money?
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That's just awesome.
Posted by southpaw | November 18, 2007 6:31 PM