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It’s odd, I’m fairly sure that John Stewart was in a movie about this not that long ago. I have this picture in my mind of a film about Stewart playing a chat show host who becomes president. Have I finally gone mad? Someone save me!

Stephen Colbert, the wingnut presenter of The Colbert Report, has announced that he is running for president, possibly only in South Carolina.
His popularity is well proven, and the establishment are already clucking their tongues and thinking
“what shall we do to stop this Colbernaught?”

It’s hard to imagine that there is over a year to go in the US presidential election. It’s a serious financial business, well over 100 Million Dollars will be spent by each of the serious candidates.

The interest is heightened by the lack of a natural successor to a deeply polarising and controversial president. The VP is not running, and none of the other members of the administration (such as Condi) seem ready to take the plunge. It’s the most democratic election in years: anyone with $100million of their friends’ money can run.

This is the first election which have a serious offer from a black guy(Borat’s favourite does not count) and a woman. The old favourites are also there, like actors, has-beens, never-weres, dog mistreaters and gnomes.

There is an extraordinarily loud following for Ron Paul from people who seem to think he would make a ticket with Kucinich. These are the sort of people who haven’t stopped to wonder why they suddenly share an opinion with Tucker Carlson, and who thought Buchanan jumped the shark on them since he had been so solid on the war thing.

Since I don’t have a vote, it’s all the more interesting to watch how this will play out. The nearest I can get is writing Executive Decision scenarios from the headlines.