Mike Huckabee has set a new standard for how frivolous a presidential candidate can be. Trying to outdo other Republican presidential candidates in asserting his hypervigilance in turning the American border with Mexico into a new Berlin Wall, Huckabee declared, “My plan to secure the border. Two words: Chuck Norris.”
Chuck Norris is Mike Huckabee’s plan to secure the border with Mexico? Even if one accepts the questionable idea that there is any actual crisis in border security, how can Chuck Norris be a plan to fix the problem?
Chuck Norris is Hollywood actor known for appearing in bad action movies in the 1980s. How will bad action movies from the 1980s stop people from crossing the border from Mexico into the United States?
I have a counterproposal that speaks on Mike Huckabee’s level.
My plan for border reform. Three words: Maria Von Trapp.
At least Maria Von Trapp had some real experience dealing with borders.
(Source: Associated Press, November 18, 2007)
