Comments on: Stephen Colbert, please end your “Republican candidacy” now http://www.redstate.com/barrypopik/2012/01/12/stephen-colbert-please-end-your-republican-candidacy-now/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:30:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Freedoms Truth http://www.redstate.com/barrypopik/2012/01/12/stephen-colbert-please-end-your-republican-candidacy-now/#comment-875 Freedoms Truth Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:33:21 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/barrypopik/?p=1469#comment-875 We have really let standards go down if Colbert still has an audience. His schtick is lame.

It’s … Comedy without the humor.

]]> By: Addison http://www.redstate.com/barrypopik/2012/01/12/stephen-colbert-please-end-your-republican-candidacy-now/#comment-874 Addison Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:00:59 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/barrypopik/?p=1469#comment-874 Tonight was the full extent of the joke as far as it pertains to South Carolina and any primary in the near future — the joke being that a person can hand over their SuperPAC (and its bounteous money) to their business partner and friend, and then run for office while that SuperPAC backs them with unlimited money. In an uncoordinated fashion, of course.

Why was it the full extent?

Because Stephen Colbert cannot actually run in South Carolina at all, because the filing date has passed and SC doesn’t allow write-ins for primary elections. That’s why he didn’t announce, he only announced that he was “exploring” a run. Tomorrow or Monday he’ll announce that he can’t run, legally, in SC.

Perhaps he’ll try to file for some later primaries? Who knows. But he won’t be in the running in South Carolina and likely won’t qualify for that debate, and would need some miraculous polling levels in Florida (not his home state) or a later state (ditto) to get on a debate stage or whatever. And of course there might be some equal time issues for Viacom, having a candidate with a TV show? There might already be. So…

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