Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC Starts Buying Up South Carolina Airtime

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Jan 13, 2012 9:37am
Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC Starts Buying Up South Carolina Airtime

<..> Stephen Colbert is putting his money where his mockery is — or, at least, his super PAC is.

On his Comedy Central show Thursday night Colbert announced “an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork” for his “possible candidacy for president of the United States of South Carolina.” He also handed control of his super PAC, Citizens for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, over to his colleague, Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/201...a-airtime/

Move over Mittens.

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January 10, 2012
Colbert in South Carolina

Stephen Colbert wanted to sponsor the South Carolina Republican primary. He wanted his name on the ballot and he wanted a referendum about whether corporations are people or only people are people. He was rebuffed in his efforts but our team at PPP decided if he couldn't get all that stuff on the actual ballot, we could at least poll it for him. Here's what we found:

-5% of primary voters would pick Colbert. He runs behind Mitt Romney's 27%, Newt Gingrich's 23%, Rick Santorum's 18%, Ron Paul's 8%, and Rick Perry's 7%. But's he beating out Jon Huntsman's 4% and Buddy Roemer's 1%.

<..> -Colbert's key, had he been allowed on the ballot, would have been to draw out Democratic voters in the state's open primary. 34% of Democrats planning to vote in the Republican contest support him to 15% for Romney, 13% for Gingrich, and 10% for Santorum. That actually leads to a serious question though- if Colbert had really been on the ballot would enough Democrats have gone out to vote for him to put him in the top tier of Republican candidates? My guess is if he'd really put some effort into it he could have won 10-15% of the vote and nabbed himself a 4th place finish there.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/...olina.html

Messing with the pubs.

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Stephen Colbert must be stopped!
By Dean Obeidallah, Special to CNN
updated 11:56 AM EST, Sat January 14, 2012

<..> Simply put: Colbert must be stopped! He is an existential threat to our way of life and to the exceptional nature of our nation.

I know some will dismiss the threat posed by Colbert -- these apologists will defend him as "harmless" or say he's no more than "a charismatic speaker" -- but that is exactly what they said about Hitler.

<..> And let's not forget that Colbert admitted that he makes up facts to support his own political arguments, as he gleefully boasted once: "I can't prove it, but I can say it."

America cannot afford a man with the views of Stephen Colbert running our nation. Colbert doesn't belong in the White House, instead he belongs on basic cable right before reruns of "Scrubs."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/14/opinion/ob...?hpt=hp_c3

Satire?