No Joking, Run Stephen Run!

Forget about Ron Paul and Hillary Clinton. Forget about Barrack Obama and Rudy Giuliani. The political blogosphere is completely ABUZZ about the real and unreal Presidential candidacy of Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, who may or may not be running as both a Republican AND a Democrat in the South Carolina Presidential Primary Election and whose campaign/non-campaign may or may not be illegal under FERC rules.

And I am wondering why anyone is surprised. While Comedy Central is not the Viacom division that has "The News more Americans trust" as its slogan Colbert and his Daily Show counterpart Jon Stewart are about the only people on television talking about politics and serious issues that have Any real credibility left with the American people. So I enthusiastically welcome Colbert to the race and hope those enthusiastic supporters DO move beyond freeping online polls and actualy get his name on the ballot and run to win.

With our recent history of hiring has been movie actors for the job, an up and comer from a hit show couldn't fare any worse in the Oval Office. And if somebody can assure me he isn't married to an astrologer I will be sold.