For 'Rocky,' McCain is the guy

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - John McCain says he's ready to run the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, just like Rocky Balboa did, now that he's got the support of actor Sylvester Stallone.

Stallone told Fox News' FOX & Friends that he's backing the Arizona senator's bid for the White House.

"I like McCain a lot. A lot," Stallone said. He called the Republican the right character for the times. "The script that's being written - and the 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."

McCain, 71, spent more than 20 years in the Navy, almost a quarter of it in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

Upon hearing the news during an interview Thursday, McCain responded: "I'm going to Philadelphia and run up the steps."

Campaigning later in West Palm Beach, McCain told reporters, jokingly: "Look out, Chuck Norris, Sylvester's comin' after you. He's comin' after you and he's going to get you. You better run! Chuck, you can run but you can't hide!"

On Sunday, Norris, an actor, said at his Navasota, Texas, ranch while hosting a fund-raiser for McCain rival Mike Huckabee that "I didn't pick John to support because I'm just afraid that the vice president would wind up taking over his job in that four-year presidency."

Norris, 67, is four years younger than McCain, who will be 72 in August. Huckabee will be 52 in August.