Mr. Colbert has announced his bid for the presidency of the United States, running in South Carolina and South Carolina alone on both the Democratic and Republican tickets. Announcing that the ticket would possibly be Colbert-Huckabee, Colbert-Putin, or Colbert-Colbert and attempting to fill out the paperwork to be part of the debates, you know this is a gigantic joke. Sadly, it's a joke that the country can get behind. If he actually decided to pursue this to it's apex, he could actually pull it off. He managed to get a bridge, a sea turtle, a state of the art 747, and a hockey mascot named after him. What would stop him from rallying his "nation" from pulling off the ultimate joke? As Colbert himself put it : "...it's clear that the voters are desperate for a white, male, middle-aged, Jesus-trumpeting alternative."
This is going to be one hell of a ride.
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At this point, anyone but Rudy or Hillary. I was surprised to read he actually registered with both parties and filled out all the paperwork, etc. The funny thing, candidates like Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson are running campaigns and assuming totally fictional personas that are even more absurd and surreal than a master satirist like Colbert can ever hope to achieve.
This is true. He's apparently dead serious about running, at least in South Carolina. Everyone at Comedy Central and Jon Stewart's camp are keeping quiet about it.
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