Quote :

"COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Stephen Colbert's fanciful White House bid took a real step Thursday before South Carolina Democrats quickly squashed his hopes, saying he wasn't a serious candidate. Colbert, who poses as a conservative talk-show host on the Comedy Central cable network, filed to get on the ballot as a Democratic candidate in his native South Carolina. His campaign paid a $2,500 filing fee just before the noon deadline, said state Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler. However, after about 40 minutes of discussion by top party officials, the executive council voted 13-3 to keep the comedian off the ballot. The host of The Colbert Report wasn't the only hopeful nixed. POLITICS BLOG: Why didn't he get in as Republican? Little known New York real estate developer Henry Hewes also was not viewed as viable nationally and had not campaigned in the state, two key requirements for the party. FIND MORE STORIES IN: House | Democrats | Republican | South Carolina | Colbert | Colbert County Colbert and Hewes will get their $2,500 back, Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler said. Colbert, who asked to be listed on the Jan. 26 ballot as Stephen "South Carolina" Colbert, appeared Sunday at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, telling several hundred fans he would, if elected, "crush the state of Georgia." He received a key to the capital city and the mayor declared him South Carolina's "favorite son." Colbert later that day met with members of the party's executive council. He also sent a two-page letter pleading to get on the ballot, noting he has already helped promote the state's peach crop and its schools and wanted to do more, saying the campaign can be about promoting the state. "Can it be about South Carolina's Magood wild American shrimp, shrimp being better than the tainted Chinese job killers we ship in now? Yes!" Colbert wrote. "But I can't do that if you cut me off." Waring Howe, a member of the executive council, said he was eager to keep Colbert off. "He's really trying to use South Carolina Democrats as suckers so he can further a comedy routine," Howe said. And Colbert "serves to detract from the serious candidates on the ballot." State Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter told the committee Colbert could showcase the state "in a way that none of the other candidates on the ballot have been able to do." "I think you're taking this a little too seriously," she said. When Colbert announced his candidacy on his show last month, he said he would run only in this key primary state. He said then he planned to run as a Democrat and a Republican — so he could lose twice. The GOP filing fee is $35,000; the deadline was Thursday night."

Damn it.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-11-01-colbert-sc_N.htm?csp=34BTW I don't read USA Today

11/1/2007 10:26:36 PM

i am so surprised and outraged by this verdict!

11/1/2007 10:28:12 PM

fucking cock-blocking democrats

11/1/2007 10:29:26 PM

ibtl
tldr
ntlb

roflcopter

11/1/2007 10:31:02 PM

ibtg

11/1/2007 10:31:22 PM

I guess I kinda understand it. They don't want a farce for their primary, they don't want to feel "unimportant" in this big game known as primary season.

Pussies.

11/1/2007 10:32:10 PM

Can you write in for this primary?

11/1/2007 10:39:58 PM

Quote :

"Colbert, who asked to be listed on the Jan. 26 ballot as Stephen "South Carolina" Colbert, appeared Sunday at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, telling several hundred fans he would, if elected, "crush the state of Georgia.""

i'm not a big fan, but that is hilarious.

11/1/2007 10:46:41 PM

I mean, what did you really expect?

The United States isn't NCSU. Did you really want The Pirate as your next president?

11/1/2007 10:48:57 PM

he just ate a peach that was from georgia and said tasted like ted turners ass

11/1/2007 10:49:16 PM

skew http://www.cnn.com/ .. bottom right

11/1/2007 10:53:52 PM

EMCE, i don't think anyone would seriously vote Colbert to president. I dont even think he would win a SC Governor election, much less a Presidential election

11/1/2007 10:56:19 PM

^ ssssshhhhhiiiiittttt...but yet arnold can win in california?

11/1/2007 11:13:24 PM

^well california is one fucked up place as is

11/1/2007 11:14:25 PM

^^ exactly


all I'm saying is that this isn't some bullshit election. As much responsibility as the presidency holds, it should be taken seriously.



hell, I'll break it down to your level......
In 20 years when you're a manager at Burger King, what would you do with an incoming application that read:

Name: Heywood Jablowme
DOB: YO MOMMA
Address: 3rd box on the right while you're driving down I-40
Work Experience: I was the hall monitor in 5th grade.
References: MY MOMMA

?

11/1/2007 11:18:30 PM

^ well, I'd hire you

11/1/2007 11:20:23 PM

...cute


so do you have anyone else to talk to? Or are you going to keep PMing me?

11/1/2007 11:21:45 PM

Are you trying to act like I'm pming you?

11/1/2007 11:22:42 PM

uhhh, dude....?


don't make me screencap my inbox. I'm not really in the mood right now. I'm about to go to bed...

11/1/2007 11:24:06 PM

hey dumbasses


all he was attempting to do was run in the PRIMARY ONLY

and ONLY IN SOUTH CAROLINA

[Edited on November 1, 2007 at 11:24 PM. Reason : /]

11/1/2007 11:24:17 PM

^yea, pretty much what i was trying to say. Oh well

11/1/2007 11:26:31 PM

That's too much in my opinion. It's a shame that he even got that far.

WHAT WOULD TEH PIRATE CAPTAIN HAVE TO SAY ABOUT ONLY RUNNING IN THE PRIMARIES??!

11/1/2007 11:28:28 PM

it's a shame that a native american citizen, aged 35+ attempted to run for president??

perhaps you should move to iran

11/1/2007 11:29:54 PM

If nothing else, allowing Colbert to run in SC would really showcase the shittyness of whoever gets even fewer votes.

11/1/2007 11:32:57 PM

Quote :

"Stephen Colbert may have abandoned his brief bid for the White House, but he ended up in a three-way tie for a seat on the Colonial Soil and Water Conservation District Board. His electoral success will be fleeting, however. When the Williamsburg Electoral Board draws a name from a hat to decide the winner, Colbert's name won't be among the three: He's not a registered voter in the former colonial capital of Virginia. Colbert, 43, and two students from the College of William and Mary each received three write-in votes in the November 6 election for a seat on the board that oversees natural resources. Matt Beato, 20, a government major who chairs the college's student assembly senate, expressed concern over the write-in process. "I'm not crazy, but any nut case could win with three votes," Beato said. "Somebody should make sure that doesn't happen." Earlier this month, Colbert abandoned his bid for the presidency after the South Carolina Democratic Executive Council voted to keep the host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" off the state's primary ballot."

ttt

11/13/2007 5:05:41 PM

well it's not like he has a show to do

11/13/2007 5:06:53 PM

Quote :

"^^ exactly all I'm saying is that this isn't some bullshit election. As much responsibility as the presidency holds, it should be taken seriously. hell, I'll break it down to your level...... In 20 years when you're a manager at Burger King, what would you do with an incoming application that read: Name: Heywood Jablowme DOB: YO MOMMA Address: 3rd box on the right while you're driving down I-40 Work Experience: I was the hall monitor in 5th grade. References: MY MOMMA ?"

This isn't at all similar to what Colbert was trying to do.

11/13/2007 5:09:50 PM

The fact that he tried to run as a democrat makes me think that he went into this thinking "this will make a good bit on the show, but maybe, juuuuust maybe...:

11/13/2007 5:19:39 PM

wrong

he was running as both a dem and rep.

the republican fee was 35000 dollars though, so he abandoned that pretty quickly

11/13/2007 5:29:22 PM

cheap bastard

11/13/2007 5:48:41 PM