Give Mike Huckabee his due. This is the best campaign ad of the year so far.
Some grouchy types will complain it is not “presidential.”
O.K.
Maybe.
If Mike were running for President in 1861, then I think he would be in big trouble, those Lincoln speeches were masterpieces of English . . . but wait didn’t Lincoln’s folk run around with wooden fence rails and bloviate endlessly about Lincoln the “rail splitter”?
Mike’s commercial seems elevated compared to “James G. Blaine, the continental lier from the state of Maine.”
Chuck Norris would use Checkers to clean his windshield.
At least Mike’s commercial has some content and which is more than can be said for the “Ike for President” ad here.
I would say the Chuck and Huck ad has, say, fifty more IQ points than the “I like Ike” ad which seems to turn on giving up on thought and just voting for the guy you like.
American politics has always had a silly side . . . look at convention hats and campaign buttons.
Huck seems able to laugh at himself.
I like Mike and I am afraid not to like Chuck Norris.
I may not vote for Mike, but I enjoy a good run . . . and Mike is having one.