Is Stephen Colbert, proud and respected scion of South Carolina, our next national political leader?

[Simeon Salus]

If even sh&tty movie stars and crappy reality-tv stars can be president, what about a nationally beloved tv star?

Talk about your great communicator. Sunday school teacher. Lord of the Rings superfan. Ten years playing the other side of the argument on the Colbert Report.

Stephen Colbert is ideally qualified as an outsider...

Electing Stephen would be a real f&ck you to the Drumpf regime.

[Happy Hoosier]

1. I'd personally love it. He is a very smart man. NT

[Srkdqltr]

2. No no no and no

Beloved?

[Simeon Salus]

7. beloved as a scion of South Carolina

They are nuts for him. A good human being who is brilliant and well-staffed.

[imaginary girl]

3. Stephen?...Is that you?...

[Xavier Breath]

4. So, then we've given up on The Rock?

[Ocelot II]

5. No. He's a talented entertainer. He should keep doing what he's good at.

I get so tired of the touting of liberal celebrities as the Next Best Presidential Candidate. People were all hot for Oprah for awhile because she gave a rousing speech at some event or other. What happened the last time we elected a celebrity? First we got second-rate movie actor Ronald Reagan and later we got reality show host Donald Trump. Please stop. We have a deep bench of people with actual experience in government. Let's elect one of them.

[unblock]

8. He's talking about the South Carolina senate seat.

The better comparison would be Al Franken.

Considering it's South Carolina, I think he's pretty much a best case scenario.

[Ocelot II]

15. In that case, maybe. Al Franken did turn out to be an excellent senator,

at least until he got kneecapped by his own party. But Franken had also been a political activist for a long time before he ran for the Senate, and was a Fellow at a Harvard center for public policy. If Colbert has some political bona fides besides being a tv comedian, it might work.

[Simeon Salus]

10. You are right of course. But we are dealing with the idiocracy. I'd rather see a win than make a statement.

Oprah was always a bad idea, as was our party's refusal to even look at Bernie in 2016. Big donor dollars prepositioned Secretary Clinton as the inevitable.

Zelenskyy was the consensus answer to Russian media aggression.

Drumpf is playing a Faux TV-host administration reality show script with the stupidest nominees in US history.

Plus Colbert's on every weeknight until May. Nobody else has such a platform. Not even Faux.

[Renew Deal]

6. No

[FakeNoose]

9. Personally I think he'd be great, but it seems he has no interest in political office

You know who else would be a marvelous politician ... even a President? Tom Hanks.

Somewhere in an alternate universe, Tom Hanks should be President of a mighty, liberal, enlightened democracy.

[DFW]

16. Allow me:

(Applies to males only)

Being in the wrong place at the wrong time gets you deported.
Being in the wrong place at the right time gets you into the Oval Office.

[Ocelot II]

18. No to Tom Hanks also. Same reason.

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. NO!

He couldn’t even beat Lindsay Graham in a senate race, and we need someone who can.

Celebrities are not our saviours.

[DFW]

12. An amalgam of Zelensky and Al Franken

Cool to speculate about, but unlike the Ukrainian situation at the time Zelensky took office, we have plenty of Democratic talent who has actually been training for the job, and I frankly doubt that Colbert wants to be doing anything other than what he is doing now.

Besides, who would be willing to take THAT kind of a pay cut? It's easy to say it's no big deal, but ten years ago, I was casually asked by someone at the DNC if I would be interested in being US Ambassador to Germany under President Hillary, and I said it sounded like one very cool gig, but the pay cut would be drastic. A friend of mine who was once Canada's ambassador to the USA (and then their Ambassador to France) said the pay sucked, but the perks were amazing. He got to live in a renovated urban 18th century castle in the heart of Paris on the Faubourg St. Honoré. Now THOSE were some digs!! Raymond told me that Canada was able to pick it up for a song at the end of World War II, and they didn't have to asked twice. I'm sure the US Embassy Residence in Berlin is pretty fabulous, too, but it's a choice I never got to agonize over. Probably just as well. I'm not always as diplomatic as I should be.

[FBaggins]

13. I doubt it. But to be fair... I have heard speculation that the way they're getting rid of him...

... is structured to keep him from running for the SC Senate seat.

His contract runs a couple months past the filing deadline for next year's primary.

[Stuckinthebush]

14. Why?

He has no political experience. Why Colbert? Because he is a successful....comedian??

Is that the political future of this nation? Both parties rely on TV personalities to lead them?

Gods help us.

[Simeon Salus]

17. No argument from me

Does sort of remind me about the truck, the boat and the helicopter story...

God keeps sending solutions but we can't recognize them.

[Simeon Salus]

19. Can we agree he'd make a heck of a speechwriter?

Have you ever seen the comedy world come out for anyone like the night show hosts did last night?

[GemDigger]

20. Enough of people thinking the Presidency should be

their first try in politics. I want someone who has the correct qualifications.