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January 24, 2008, 2:55 PM
Rambo vs. Walker, Texas Ranger
Posted by Andante Higgins
(CBS)From CBS News' Dante Higgins:
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. -- Forget Oprah vs. Barbara Streisand. The Republicans have their own celebrity endorsers, albeit they're on the other end of the testosterone scale.
And while celebrity endorsements have been much fewer and further between in the GOP race, they have had their share of fairly high-profile backers.
John McCain has been endorsed by Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, Rudy Giuliani has actor Jon Voight and New York Yankees slugger Johnny Damon and Mike Huckabee has been accompanied by actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris almost everywhere it seems the past several weeks.
McCain may have been feeling the heat in terms of his lack of really high-profile celebrity endorsers. Schilling was a regional favorite in New Hampshire but McCain was missing his own Chuck Norris-type.
When he was endorsed by Wilford Brimley, McCain quipped that the 73-year-old actor was his "response to Chuck Norris.”
Well, today, McCain received a much more comparable counter-punch: "Rocky" and "Rambo" star Sylvester Stallone.
Now, let the trash-talking begin.
“Look out Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone is coming after you," McCain said to Huckabee's pal Norris, who suggested that McCain might be too old to be president. "He’s coming after you and he’s going to get you! So you’d better run.”
“Chuck, you can run but you can’t hide."
