A Hucka-nutter Sandwich

Here's the gist of this Huckabee article in the New York Times, talk about fluff.

“Hey, dogs never bark at parked cars,” said the candidate, whose round brown eyes and smiley bearing make him slightly resemble the actor Jim Nabors. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight,” he adds, “it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

He is trying to look forward, not back, he said, “because you know, that’s why the windshield is so much bigger than the rear-view mirror.”

Mr. Huckabee’s campaign events have become increasingly crowded and media-heavy affairs while retaining an oddly lighthearted, even campy feel. Some supporters have taken to showing up at his New Hampshire events dressed up as black and yellow Huck-a-Bees, with big twirly antennas emanating from their heads.

Another theme is, increasingly, siege. “My opponents have taken out all the sharp knives in the kitchen and are getting them all nice to slice and dice me,” Mr. Huckabee said.

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.”

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.

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Went to the NYT link. This hit piece, disguised, as is the usual practice at the NYT, as "political coverage" is penned by someone "slightly resembling" (as this NYT writer would put it) Joseph Goebbels. Oh well, it's all in the game.