What started as satirical, political humor on the Colbert Report, mocking two republican candidates for their negative super PAC ads against each other, soon became more than any of us could've imagined. Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report (a mock news cast on Comedy Central) had been picking apart how super PACs work to his audiences for weeks. Yet, when the opportunity presented itself, Colbert started a super PAC of his own. The Colbert super PAC invited unlimited contributions from donors who were listed as "Heroes" on the Colbert Report and spent this money to make super PAC ads of his own, bashing all candidates. Colbert then announced that he was forming an exploratory committee (which seemed to consist of Dr. Henry Kissinger, Pat Buchanan, Criss Angel Mindfreak, Siri, Grima Wormtongue, Rosco the Super Intelligent Ferret, Chuck Todd, and a roll of quarters) to consider running for the President of the United States of South Carolina. The committee encouraged voters of Iowa, New Hamphire, or South Carolina to write-in Rick Perry's name spelt with an A (Rick Parry) on the ballot OR place a vote for Herman Cain's suspended campaign as a vote for Colbert. This was all perfectly legal according to Colbert's lawyer. As long as he was gaining this money through a super PAC, Colbert could essentially spend the money any way he wanted. So to make it official, Colbert brought in his close friend Jon Stewart from the Daily Show to "coordinate" with the super PAC, which officially means that Colbert can't share his plans with Stewart. Ads by "The Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC" were shown in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina like actual campaign ads and Colbert held rally's such as the "Rock Me Like A Herman Cain" rally at colleges throughout these states. The Colbert/Cain campaign ultimately received 45 votes in Iowa, 160 votes in New Hamphire, and 6,324 votes in South Carolina, leaving the the campaign with more votes than Perry, Huntsman, and Bachmann combined. However, the campaign was still only had 1% of the votes, so on Monday night Colbert announced that he was re-suspending Herman Cain's already suspended campaign. Colbert explains that while "American's for a better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" was a mockery on how far politics have gone in the past election, if you think that it's a joke, then you're admitting that the election tactics being used by actual candidates in this election are also a joke.
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In my personal opinion all this drama make the government elections look like a high school class president election. Joking aside from the content of this article, half our school could run the government better than these drama queens.
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