Colbert Nation

This is a couple days late, but we'll have some weekend fun with the idea of President Stephen Colbert. An article published in the Los Angeles Times on Friday questions the legitimacy of a poll that found 13 percent of people prefer Colbert over Clinton and Giuliani, but nonetheless wonders how our nation can be so jaded that people prefer that a comedian become president over a senator or the former mayor of New York.

Has America lost its collective mind? Have we so given up on politics that 13% of us would rather a comedian become president than someone who has actually spent some time governing a state or passing laws in Congress?