I’ve often been snide and compared Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s appearance to the Lord of the Rings character Smeagol… and also joked that his stunning, tall redheaded wife looks like an elf princess. But he’s now campaigning with Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn in the series.

A weird campaign gets weirder.

In a radio interview, Mortensen lamented the fact that the media is ignoring Kucinich, and said he encountered too many people who wore Kucinich buttons but who said, “I can’t throw my vote away. This attitude is fostered by the mainstream media… It’s a psychological trick.”