What is it with the, shall we say, seasoned action stars endorsing Republican presidential candidates? First we had Huck ‘n’ Chuck, and now Sylvester Stallone has come out in support of Republican front-runner John McCain.

AP via Breitbart.com:

Stallone said of McCain, a Vietnam war veteran who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war, that “there’s something about matching the character with the script.”

“And right now, the script that’s being written and reality is pretty brutal and pretty hard-edged like a rough action film, and you need somebody who’s been in that to deal with” it.

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