The Best Man Left on the Battlefield': Chuck Norris Endorses Gingrich

Newt Gingrich landed a high-powered endorsement Friday: Chuck Norris, martial arts star and entertainment action hero.

"We believe Newt’s experience, leadership, knowledge, wisdom, faith and even humility to learn from his failures (personal and public) can return America to her glory days," Norris wrote in a column on World Net Daily. "He is the best man left on the battlefield who is able to outwit, outplay and outlast Obama and his campaign machine."

Norris said he believes Gingrich best answers the "10 questions to find our next president" Norris has detailed in his recent columns, including: greatest leadership ability, working comprehension of America, moral fortitude, fiscal prudence and highest regard for human life.

"For my wife, Gena, and I, we sincerely believe former Speaker Newt Gingrich is the answer to most of those questions and deserves our endorsement and vote," Norris wrote.

The former "Walker, Texas Ranger" star also credited Rick Perry for choosing to suspend his campaign and endorse Gingrich.

"We agree with our friend and governor of the great state of Texas, Rick Perry, when he suspended his campaign and endorsed Gingrich, that Newt 'has the heart of a conservative reformer,'" Norris wrote.

Norris concluded his column with a call for readers to rally behind Gingrich as the GOP nominee and eventual president of the United States.

"I’m tired of watching our country being torn to shreds by those who think the answer is more government debt and control," he wrote. "I’m tired of being in bondage to a tax system that robs U.S. citizens like the king of England did before the Revolution. I’m tired of watching our sovereignty being sold by foreign loans and loose borders. And I will not sit back and merely watch this decay and degradation of the U.S. and then hand it over to my children and grandchildren to deal with. "

Norris endorsed and campaigned for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee during the 2008 election cycle.