Colbert is a serious about a presidential bid as were Pat Paulson and Snoopy. Anyone who votes for such a candidate would otherwise not vote.

Who knows? Maybe while voting for Colbert they'll cast a vote for the Democratic candidate for dog catcher. Win-win.

If you think Colbert has contempt for the Democratic principles of the Presidential elections, he is no worse than our own Democratic party has become.

Nowhere in our Party's treatment of Presidential candidates or Presidential processes is there any consideration of the ideals that our party is supposed to stand for.

Our Party now merely bows and scrapes on the floor to cater to the candidates who have prostituted themselves to collect the most money.

Our Party selection should be based on the ideas, proposals and plans of the candidates, not on the highest pile of bribe money gained by selling out principles.

Our party spits in the face of the one and only candidate who truly has the action plan with actual steps to fulfill our liberal progressive principles.

Compare the Top Ten List at www.franklynch.org to the rehashed "Oh so 20th Century obsolete baloney" with which all the other candidates insult our intelligence.

Except for www.franklynch.org, all the other candidates are only repeating the rhetoric from the 1970's, repeating promises which they have broken again and again.

Can't we wake up and get rid of the proven liars, of the candidates who have never delivered, and choose a new and better future?

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I think he is funny.

Colbert is the perfect antidote to states that take themselves too seriously, like Iowa; while Gore is perfect for states that are not taken seriously enough, like Michigan.

Of course, if a Democratic presidential candidate wins in Florida (a state whose demographics looks like America) they can probably win nationwide.

In November?
The saddest memory I have of 2000 is coming in for the recount, slightly hung over at noon the day after the election day. One of the first orders of business was counting and reading out loud the write in votes. I winced at every vote for Mickey Mouse....

Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL

I don't know. But I'm not mad at him, that's for sure. Should he actually win a primary it could point out perhaps to legislators in a way that we the people have not been able to as to how disgusted we are with the continued war in Iraq. Congress was given a mandate from the people last November and that was to get the H out of Iraq NOW. Not in two years, not in 20 years but NOW. So far we have been ignored as they continue, for all their huffing and puffing to give Bush his money to be distributed not to the American people .

I like the thought of his candidacy, but why not run for something where he has a real chance of winning and little chance of tipping the scale, like for senator from a very, very Red state, like WYoming, and of course, as a Republican?

I would love to see him give Mike Enzi a primary...

Jane Fonda is all over Colbert every chance she gets, that's all the sex scandal Stephen needs. And the only votes he's going to take away from any democrat are absent minded Clinton votes.

Besides, isn't he running in South Carolina ONLY?