Stephen Colbert appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Tuesday night to announce that he officially considering announcing that he would be running for president, but would be announcing whether or not he will announce on a more prestigious show.

Probably all too predictably, the more prestigious show was his own show, as he announced 15 minutes later.

Now, if Colbert gets elected, I’m not sure whether it will be the character who he portrays on his show or his real self that will be making the decisions, but I will say that either way, we now finally have a political candidate with a real backbone for what he believes in, rather than the other wishy-washy presidential candidates from both parties, all of whom I don’t really like. I know that Colbert says that he’s only going to be running in his home state of South Carolina, but I think that he should really take this seriously and hope that he doesn’t just do this to be a TV gag, the way he used his broken wrist to do a series on wrist violence on his show.

Although I do disagree with the Republican/conservative platform and only enjoy the content on Colbert’s show because I absorb it with the frame of mind that what he says is purely satire, I do hope that he does well and will definitely be following his campaign closely. After all, if he can lead his listeners in a campaign to triple the elephant population listed on Wikipedia, I’m sure he can get people to put his name down at the polls. Now, if only we could get someone else to run…

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