Stephen Colbert running for the President of the United States of South Carolina

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This whole thing happened some time last week where comedian and host of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert, noticed a news story mentioning him getting five percent in an upcoming GOP primary. The catch is that he never formally announced that he would run for President, especially after he already tried to get the Democratic nomination back in 2008. These were all write-in votes, just speculative. So, on 1/12/2012, he announced that he was going to run an exploratory committee of whether to run as the Republican candidate of the President of the United States of South Carolina. He even transferred over his super PAC (Stephen Colbert Super PAC: Republicans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow) over to The Daily Show host Jon Stewart since even potential presidential nominees cannot have their own super PACs (the name being changed to The Definitely Not Coordinating with Stephen Colbert Super PAC: Republicans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow).

For the past week, it has been good late night television with these two Comedy Central shows. They have alternatively made appearances on each others programs, mostly to poke fun at the loopholes that have to do with super PACs and not being allowed to coordinate with any of the nominees. They did catch a snag when news stations stated that Colbert could not run in South Carolina since he wasn't officially on the ballot and there couldn't be any write in candidates for this primary.

However, there is a loophole that they exposed. For some reason or another, ex-candidate Herman Cain's name is still on the ballot for the primary (even though he decided not to run back in December). With that, Colbert announced that voting for Cain on the ballot is a vote for Colbert, and the super PAC run by Stewart came out with a political ad saying the same thing. This Friday, Colbert held a rally for the Cain/Colbert vote at a college. He even got Herman Cain to attend.

the funny part is that Colbert's rally had a higher attendance than the rallies held for the "real" nominees. There has even been a few people who have said that they would seriously vote for Colbert, with Stewart along on his ticket. His percentage of votes have slowly increased over the past week. Governor Rick Perry has stepped out of the race earlier this week, receiving the least amount of votes in the previous primaries. Newt Gingrich's ex-wife came out on an interview saying that her husband wanted to have an open marriage while she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which probably wrote ride well with his conservative audience. Mitt Romney's only flaw in the conservative view is that he's a Mormon, a branch of Christianity most Christians see as a "cult" (although I personally see nothing wrong with it).

With not many nominees left in the GOP, does Colbert have a fighting chance to become more than just the President of the United States of South Carolina? Or is this simply going to be a repeat of 2008 with the Democratic party? One thing's for sure though: this is going to make for some great television (and possibly score The Daily Show another Emmy).

 

I always said that if Colbert ran for President, I would vote for him and him only.


I really want to see this progress on TV.

 

Colbert's antics always seem to end up going too far into reality, which was why when I got excited when I heard he decided to potentially run. Although, I feel like this has gone too far to stop now. I would vote for him too, mostly because I trust him more than any of the nominees out there. As long as he runs with Stewart and the give the super PAC to someone like John Oliver (or maybe go old school and brink Steven Carrel into the mix), they will have my vote.

Anyone can point out the flaws in the political system, but it takes someone with really huevos to point it out to everyone and make it into one big joke.

 

This has got to be a joke, lmao.

I can't imagine it being anything else.

Unless I misread somewhere...

 

It did start as a joke. Like I said, Colbert showed a news clip saying that he would get 5% of votes in an early vote for the S. Carolina primaries. He basically used that to start everything, and, like I said, it was all to make good TV. However, reading this news report from the rally he had on Friday, people are dead serious on wanting him to be President of the United States of South Carolina.

This video also shows that Colbert is currently in the lead of popularity polls (it continues on to say that he endorses Ron Paul, only if he decided not to run).

Like I said, Colbert has the tendency to turn jokes into National headlines. This time though, I don't think he's able to stop it.

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