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Pompano Beach, FL — One of the bright spots on the Giuliani campaign trail during the last week has been the omnipresent and always upbeat Jon Voight.

The award winning actor from “Deliverance” and “Midnight Cowboy” joined Giuliani on the trail two weeks ago and has been warming up audiences for him at almost every stop and spends a great deal of time joking around with the press corps.

But is Giuliani using Voight to his full potential? While much has been made of the tough guy endorsements on the GOP side—Chuck Norris (Huckabee) and Sly Stallone (McCain)—Voight’s performance in the 2004 lesser known flick, “Karate Dog,” shows that the 69-year old actor can hold his own–at least against an animated dog.

We asked him about the movie today as Voight threw a nerf football around with senior campaign adviser Tony Carbonetti at Giuliani’s Broward County headquarters. While Voight loses the fight with Karate Dog, the actor defended his abilities by noting that he was facing a “super dog.”

The actor, who also has a penchant for drawing metaphors between the campaign and his movies, said the lesson the Giuliani campaign can draw from Karate Dog, is “we’re in a battle, we have to be alert and we have got to stay away from dogs.”

…but no word if he also gets rights to one of Jon Voight’s old cars.

Campaign release:

Academy Award-Winning Actor Jon Voight Endorses Mayor Giuliani

New York City - The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee today announced that accomplished actor Jon Voight has endorsed Rudy Giuliani for President of the United States and will campaign on his behalf in both Florida and California later this month. Voight, who earned both an Oscar and Golden Globe for his role as a quadriplegic Vietnam Veteran in the 1978 movie “Coming Home” and numerous nominations for other roles, has been a powerful presence on the silver screen for almost four decades.

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