After a grueling few weeks on the GOP campaign trail funnyman Stephen Colbert has thrown in the towel, announcing on Monday that he was dropping out to focus on being funny.
In his message to supporters, namely his Comedy Central views and perhaps a few disgruntled GOP members given the choices left to them he announced:
“My fellow Americans of South Carolina: While your turnout on Saturday was historic, unfortunately–and no one could have predicted this–Herman Cain did not win the South Carolina primary.”
He then added:
“So it is with a heavy heart and a spastic colon, that I am re-suspending Herman Cain’s suspended campaign.”
You might recall that Stephen Colbert had failed to get his name on the South Carolina ballot after missing the November filing and a write-in is not allowed under state election laws. After realizing he couldn’t receive votes Colbert urged his supporters to vote for Tea Party member Herman Cain instead.
Colbert went so far as to have his Super PAC, which he handed over to Jon Stewart for legal reasons, run an ad that called Mitt Romney a serial killer, here’s the ad:
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In the end he left his supporters with the following message:
“So now that my exploration has come to an end, who knows what I’m going to do. Maybe I’ll be like Herman Cain and hit the road in a bus with my face on it,” Colbert said. “Maybe I’ll hit the road in a bunch of tiny cars, each with a different part of my face on it.”
It looks like Stephen Colbert won’t be the President of the United States of South Carolina or any other state after all…sad day ?
