On last night’s “Colbert Report,” Stephen Colbert — agonizing over which Not-Romney candidate to support in the Republican primary — came to an unsurprising conclusion:
“It all makes so much sense! … [M]y heart always leads me to me! And I am so not Mitt! … But wait, wait, wait, wait — that’s crazy! These guys have been running for a year now. How can I ever compete with an established candidate like Jon Huntsman?”
Turns out, that competition is already over. A recent Public Policy Polling (PPP) Poll taken in South Carolina has Colbert running ahead of Jon Hunstman in the state (despite the appeal of Huntsman’s daughters), and no Republican candidate has ever won a presidential race without winning the South Carolina. If you can win South Carolina, you can win the presidency. And guess who is from the state?
Stephen Colbert.
After all but conceding that Mitt Romney had the nomination wrapped up, Colbert teased an announcement he plans to make tonight. Will he run?
“That’s a really big decision,” Colbert said. “First, I need to pray on it. … Okay, god’s good with it. But obviously I still have to go home, sit down and talk it over with my money.”
It wouldn’t be Colbert’s first time to run — he ran in 2008, but was denied a place on the Democratic ballot. My guess is that tonight Colbert will announce his intention to run as a third-party candidate, and while he obviously doesn’t have a prayer of winning, he could shake things up in South Carolina and beyond.
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