Colbert Should Drop Out of the Race

What do Pat Buchanan, Donald Trump, Jesse Ventura, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Beatty and Cybill Shepherd have in common with Steven Colbert? All have been touted, to one degree or another, as celebrity presidential candidates.

Colbert, of course, tossed his satirical hat into the ring on his popular Comedy Central show as red, white and blue balloons fell around him, and claims that he will enter the primary in his native South Carolina. As both a Democrat and Republican.

A lot of bloggers already are saying that they'll vote for Colbert if given a chance, and in one recent Democratic poll that included his name he was ahead of Bill Richardson and was closing in on Joe Biden.

Me? I'm gonna to be a party pooper and suggest that we don't need no stinkin' distractions, no matter how antic Colbert is, in this most important presidential race.

Besides which, Colbert pronounces his name coal-behr, as in camembert cheese. That's way too French for my American tastes.