[Bondo]

Late night comedian/bloviator Stephen Colbert is running for president... but only in South Carolina, and he wants to be a candidate for both Republicans and Democrats. What's surprising about his candidacy is Romney's campaign is probably still filled with more artifice and evasion than any possible Colbert campaign.

Assuming he makes a (or both) ballot(s), who would he steal votes/momentum from? Obama and Guiliani? Paul?

And are there any debates scheduled in South Carolina? It would be a great show/circus if they let him in. They only question would be if anyone else dared to show, besides Mike Gravel on the democratic side.

Oh, and will Rudy have to step up his attacks on bears?

This post has been edited by Bondo: 21 October 2007 - 05:24 AM

[Jason Vines]

I am wary of treating an election as too much of a joke. Satire shows are one thing; they're distinct from the electoral process. But satire candidates would turn the election itself into a mockery. When political accountability to the public is already distressingly low, should we disdain the tool by which the citizenry can attempt to impose responsibility on its leaders?

Then again, one could say Election 2008 is already a mockery, given its pathetic slate of candidates and meandering around like a decapitated chicken more than a year before Election Day. So maybe, if nothing else, Stephen Colbert's candidacy could highlight the inanity of the whole thing.


The symbol of Election 2008

[Sim]

Jason Vines, on Oct 21 2007, 12:44 PM, said:

I am wary of treating an election as too much of a joke. Satire shows are one thing; they're distinct from the electoral process. But satire candidates would turn the election itself into a mockery. When political accountability to the public is already distressingly low, should we disdain the tool by which the citizenry can attempt to impose responsibility on its leaders?

But it may have the opposite effect as well: Maybe his step is suited to interest people in politics, who would have never been interested in it if he didn't run. Some very apolitical people may catch interest in the election in general, because of Colbert ... what do you think?

[I am Da Man]

lol Stephen Colbert....Running in character would be unthinkable...running out of character, well, I do believe he gets paid more in his current job