South Carolina Senator (Colbert?)

[Roy Rolling]

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I hear there’s an opening for the job of senator from South Carolina and someone will be appointed to fill that seat in the Senate.

I also hear Stephen Colbert is “suddenly” available.

[mercuryblues]

1. Sounds good to me.

[Golfnbrew]

35. Annie

I would love Colbert, he is so sharp, but we already have an excellent candidate, Annie Anderson, a pediatrician.

[sop]

37. Annie Andrews

[Golfnbrew]

46. Thank you

Yep, Anderson was stuck in my head, Andrews is correct!

[SocialDemocrat61]

2. No more TV celebrities

running for office.

[Roy Rolling]

3. Appointed

Not “running for office” Appointed until a special election.

But I would never rule anything out, including TV celebrities after the excellent job performance by Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Ukraine.

[SocialDemocrat61]

4. The one exception

How has electing a TV celebrity for President worked out for this country?

[catchnrelease]

5. Al Franken wasn't too shabby

[SocialDemocrat61]

7. He never passed much legislation

Other than asking Jeff Sessions some tough questions in one hearing, I can’t think of much that he accomplished in the Senate.

[KS Toronado]

12. Senator Al Franken was a leader his fellow elected Democrats looked up to

and you can't get much legislation passed with Rs in control always saying no.

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. His fellow democrats looked up to???

Then why did 39 of his fellow democrats call for him to resign so quickly?

[KS Toronado]

15. That was a shame on our party that they believed the shit Veritas Project was putting out.

And it all started with a photo of a comic attempting to be funny, followed by R lies.

[SocialDemocrat61]

16. Actually it was 7 or 8 women

including a democratic congressional staffer. And wasn't Project Veritas James O'Keefe's operation? Don't recall they had anything to do with Franken.

But I still never heard any fellow Senator or even a democratic member of the House ever say that they looked up to Fraken. But if I missed someone please point them out.

[KS Toronado]

21. Sorry I'm not going to allow anyone to waste my time

bashing an ex-Senator that the MAJORITY OF LIBERALS LOOKED UP TO. Have a nice day.

[SocialDemocrat61]

25. Not bashing anyone

if I said anything that is factual not the truth, please correct me. But if a majority of liberals looked up to Franken, why? Was it because of the progressive legislation that he got passed in the Senate or because he was a TV celebrity?

[DFW]

6. After decades of informed, incisive political commentary

I’d bet that Colbert would do a FAR more credible job of representing the people of South Carolina in the Senate than anyone the Republicans would choose to replace Graham. For this reason alone, Colbert is already out of the question.

[SocialDemocrat61]

8. Howard Cosell was a great sportscaster for decades

doesn’t mean he would have been a good player.

[wolfie001]

20. What was the joke that made you so committedly anti-Colbert?

I mean, this would NEVER happen (Senate seat), but you really seem so invested? 🤔

[SocialDemocrat61]

22. Nothing against Colbert

Just not a fan of TV celebrities running for office.

[wolfie001]

33. OK. Cool

"Bam!"

[DFW]

23. He was also physically out of the question

Colbert is intellectually very much as capable of taking on the job of Senator, as was Al Franken. No one was asked to take Cosell seriously as a 60 year old line backer, which he never was. Al was taken very seriously as a 60 year old Senator.

This apples and oranges game is ridiculous.

Don’t tell me you think Tim Scott is doing a more credible job as Senator from South Carolina than Stephen Colbert would—not that Colbert has made the slightest move toward campaigning for the position (as in moving his residence back to South Carolina, for example), or that a Republican governor of South Carolina would appoint Colbert as a caretaker for the interim. Colbert is probably the most famous native of South Carolina alive at the moment. I’m sure that if he wanted to make political capital out of that, the moves would already be underway.

[SocialDemocrat61]

28. Never said anything about Scott

Any republican is worse than any democrat. But I’m sure there are many capable democratic elected officials in South Carolina to run for that seat who actually have experience working in government. Let republicans put up TV celebrities for office.

[ColoringFool]

17. Why not? I mean, I know why you're saying it (Trump), but the Lawyer....

Class has never been all that terrific.

[SocialDemocrat61]

18. Never said it has to be a lawyer

AOC isn't a lawyer. But she wasn't a TV celebrity either. We've had 2 celebrity Presidents and niether was good for the country. You would think we would learn are lesson already.

[MadameButterfly]

24. Republican presidents haven't been good for the country

since somewhere around/after Teddy Roosevelt. I wouldn't link it to celebrity status necessarily.

[SocialDemocrat61]

29. True

But democrats should put up qualified, experienced candidates. Leave the TV celebrities for the republicans.

[MadameButterfly]

38. Isn't it a moot point for SC where Dems won't have a say

in this appointment? WE have the Dem nominee already, right?

[SocialDemocrat61]

40. Yes, the primary was on June 9th

Dr. Annie Andrews won.
https://drannieandrews.com/
People should focus their energy on supporting her rather than wishing for a TV celebrity.

[MadameButterfly]

44. I'm kind of sorry she doesn't have Graham to run against

But maybe he isn't as poisonous to SC voters as he is to me. Still hard for me to imagine going after someone new who hasn't yet proven their incompetence and dishonesty.

[Submariner]

19. Just no more presidents with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame would take care of our problem

The two we've had, cut n' run Ronnie and the Pedo, both have 'Wag the Dog' wars in common to deflect the electorates view of their assholeness on the world stage.

Reagan got 241 Marines and Sailors killed in Beirut, so he invaded Grenada 3 days later and got 4 Navy SEALS killed among others for NOTHING. And that was 3 years before the traitor POTUS negotiated with terrorists, arms for hostages.

And wasn't Iran attacked just a week or so after that FBI Form 302 describing the POTUS's penis in the 13 years old girl who bit him and he threatened her.

No more Hollywood star assholes for president!

[SocialDemocrat61]

30. Or Governor or Senator.

[GPV]

42. This one is intelligent and human, though.

[GoCubsGo]

9. That's what I call "wishful thinking."

Gov. McMoron is one of the biggest Trump boot-lickers on the planet. No way he'd appoint ANY Democrat, let alone Stephen. Besides, that's not how it's done here.. There will be a special election, although at this point, they might as well leave it open, since the seat is open for election in November.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. I believe his sister ran for Representative, but lost to the former governor

Mark Sanford, the one who went "missing" on the Appalachian Trail...

[DFW]

31. I never met the current governor, who seems awful

In the meantime, I have met Mark Sanford several times, and actually like the guy. Our politics don’t have a lot in common, and we don’t discuss our love lives, obviously😆

[TVguyCards]

11. I'll bring up someone people here will know

and somehow has been forgotten about.

Sonny Bono.

[Historic NY]

14. Bill Bradley, NY Knicks 3 term Senator NJ

[MadameButterfly]

27. and ran for president

[SocialDemocrat61]

34. And did his best to

trash Al Gore. How did that work out for the country?

[Polybius]

39. They were having a primary

Hillary vs. Obama 2008 was arguably nastier.

[SocialDemocrat61]

43. Bradley repeatedly lied about Gore

and his position on issues. The Bradley campaign was the source of the whole 'I invented the internet' controversy. Bradley's whole campaign strategy was to paint Gore as a habitual liar, which was then picked up by the Bush campaign.

[MadameButterfly]

41. I'm not familiar with the details of that primary campaign but

I'm not going to attribute trashing Al Gore to his celebrity status. And by the time he ran for president he was a qualified politician.

Al Gore himself had some celebrity because of his father. Though it means he was raised in politics, maybe extra-qualified.

[SocialDemocrat61]

45. Yes he was qualified

But he ran a dishonest campaign where his main strategy was to call Gore a liar.

[MadameButterfly]

47. I was in college and got my news from Newsweek magazine:-)

so what did I know then? My extended family is from Tennessee and long time fans of the Gores. Not liars, obviously, so that would have rankled me too.

[DFW]

36. Or John Glenn, the astronaut and then Senator from Ohio

I put Mark Kelly in a different category, as he would have been quite content to stay in the military and let Gabby be the Politician. He would never have run for anything without her encouragement to step in where she no longer could.

[Godot51]

26. McMaster...

... is a moron maga who'll probably appoint himself and run in the upcoming senate race as well.

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. Dr. Annie Andrews won the SC primary for senator.

[dlk]

48. I think Colbert is doing scriptwriting for the next Lord of the Rings film

More rewarding and safer for someone so outspoken, than serving in the Senate.