If there is any video game character assumed to be a Republican, it would be Duke Nukem. A riff on classic '80s action heroes, and obsessed with guns, booze and saving American women from an alien menace, Duke Nukem practically bleeds red, white and blue.
He's also a joke, which was seemingly lost on whichever Republican presidential candidate sought out Duke Nukem's voice actor and offered him a job. In a Facebook post, Jon St. John, the voice of the Duke himself, said his conscience wouldn't let him take a job from the leading Republican presidential candidate.
"I don't like to turn down jobs ... especially when it's a national ad campaign that pays pretty well," St. John writes. "But I have a conscience and could not accept a gig to be the advertising voice of the Republican party's leading candidate for president. Thanks for the kind offer, but I will sleep just fine at night knowing I made a choice I can live with."
Many assume St. John is talking about Donald Trump, who has been leading in the polls. When asked to clarify which candidate he was talking about, St. John said, "I should have written ‘a leading GOP candidate for president.' It might have been Trump or Cruz. Either way, I would not have done it."
So, it could be Trump. Or it could be Ted Cruz. Maybe even Ben Carson. Regardless, we can't help but wonder what kind of role St. John would have played in the campaign ad. He couldn't have been portraying Duke Nukem, as St. John doesn't own Duke Nukem, and it seems highly unlikely the campaign would pay for the rights to use the character. Would it have been a voiceover endorsement? Might St. John have provided the voice for Nuke Dukem, a character that was basically Duke Nukem in all but name?
We'll never know the answers to these questions, but that is probably for the best, lest we get a Republican ad campaign that looks like the image below.
