Political Nanny has zero confidence that Mike Huckabee will receive the Republican nomination, much less win the general election. Still, she’s fascinated by the guy.
He’s a former fatty trying to win THE popularity contest, where looks play a huge part in voter appeal (there, Giuliani, Kucinich and Richardson, are screwed too). Huckabee also has a surprisingly entertaining sense of humor for a man whose stance on important issues is quite the opposite of Political Nanny’s. And then this new “God is green” bandwagon lots of Christian conservatives are hopping on, including ecclesiastical Huckabee himself. You've gotta love science deniers counting on science (no, wait, you don't gotta love that).
As an experienced campaign watcher, Political Nanny knows candidate Huckabee won't amount to anything and that deep down he’s a brat. So long as he's harmless now, she finds him adorable.
And somehow this recent public endorsement by an irrelevant former badass just ads to the candidate’s charm. Chuck Norris (if you’re not sure who he is, ask your dad) has come out in favor of Huckabee and even put together a little ad telling you why. And it's funny!
Oh, Political Nanny is no fan of “Delta Force” and the rest of the Chuck Norris oeuvre. But linking the aging martial artist with the other Man From Hope (cue the angels) just gives Political Nanny the warm fuzzies for her country and its weird bedfellows all over again. (Of course, if Huckabee starts pulling ahead, Political Nanny will whip out her nunchucks and go mid-80s Norris all over this sentiment.)
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