Well it’s been a long time coming. Stephen Colbert has finally put his name in the already crowded race for the presidency in the next election. Colbert made the announcement on last night’s episode of his Comedy Central show, among a flurry of red, white, and blue balloons. Before making the announcement on The Colbert Report, he appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart saying he was only ready to consider running for the presidency. He portrayed himself as an Average Joe on The Tonight Show by pulling out a bale of hay and a bottle of beer. He also said that his final announcement would be made on what he called a more prestigious show, which later turned out to be his own. The bestselling author was able to mock the standard approach to the White House with his recent book tour. He claimed to be running in South Carolina, one of the more important early primaries, and only South Carolina.
I have no idea… I can’t really tell if he’s actually being serious on this. He has continuously refused to disclose his final decision; now that he has no one can tell whether or not he’s actually serious. It doesn’t help that he stated that he was running under both the democratic and republican party. He also stated that possible running partners include Putin, Huckabee, and Colbert. That doesn’t clarify it either. Colbert also was not available for comment after his announcement, so we’ll just have to wait for him to break character, which rarely happens. If Colbert is actually throwing his name into the race for the White House, he just threw a huge wrench into a very crowded race. But it does make for something interesting to keep up with.
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