Letters to the Editor
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Please, please be serious.
I am dead serious when I say Mr. Colbert is the one candidate who could cure six years of international sickness in six weeks. He is simply the most charming, likable man in America. Allez, Colbert, allez!
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Funny stuff
Well at least college students are interested in politics. That's good as I think the youth of the country are the ones if they would actually vote, could outdo all those middle aged and elderly fuddy duddies who want everything back the way it was pre-WWII or at least pre-Vietnam, but still want wars without raising taxes.
As for Colbert, are that many people really interested in him winning the presidency or are they just going to be a bunch of dunder headed kids that hand the White House over to another Republican power hungry macho posturing fool becuase they like participating in the joke?
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Tired of living in a culture where farce is more real than reality
Even though I'm a big fan of Colbert, and he's said he's only out to get one delegate, I find this enthusiasm for a faux candidate to be just a little too surreal.
Isn't politics bizarre enough already? Isn't the US?
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@Lestat1
I think there's a real hunger for a non-politician in office. And unfortunately, in America, the only people who have the ability to raise the support without rising up through party ranks (and thus getting corrupted) are celebrities. So a clever, charming celebrity like Colbert might be considered by many people to be the best choice on the ballot. Actually, while Obama's enough of an outsider to make him an acceptable option, I'd probably agree with them.
As to handing the white house over. I think a lot of people make the mistake of saying Gore votes + Nader votes = Democrat victory. They forget that many of the people who were inspired by Nader wouldn't have voted at all had he not been on the ballot. Probably when dealing with the young crowd that Colbert might inspire, this is doubly true.
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This isn't all that new.
We've had "tv personalities" running for office for years. The only differene is that with Colbert we can all admit that he's fake (and that being fake is his job) and with the rest of the pack we have to pretend that they mean what they say and are who they present themselves to be.
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Pat Paulsen
COmedian Pat Paulsen from the Smothers Brothers TV show ran similar presidential campaigns in the 60's and 70's and even into the 90's. He even got some votes.
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ANYONE OUT THERE REMEMBER PAT PAULSEN?
Patrick L. Paulsen....NOW there was a candidate worth supporting, NOT a NINCOMPOOP like Stephen T. Colbert or an ASININE DOLT like Ron Paul....Alas, poor Pat Paulsen is DEAD and BURIED....Is it TOO MUCH to ask that Stephen L. Colbert, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Fred Thompson, Mike Huckabee, Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter ALL FOLLOW SUIT and JUMP INTO THEIR RESPECTIVE FRESHLY-DUG GRAVES instead of acting like THE ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU(tm) THEY ALL ARE????
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cynics don't vote
i'd be surprised if colbert did. as for the million at the site, this is what they do in lieu of voting.
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@raymundo
You CAN'T USE CAPITALS for EMPHASIS on THE INTERNET.
It just makes it look like you are SHOUTING and makes you seem like one of those lunatic oldsters screaming at the whipper-snappers to GET OFF MY LAWN!
You now have NO EXCUSE for DOING IT AGAIN.
ARE WE CLEAR?!