Texas Gov. Rick Perry is likely to become a presidential candidate by the weekend, shortly after the Ames, Iowa, straw poll and the Republican candidate debate to be televised on Fox News. Perry has already drawn a supporter of sorts.
It seems Stephen Colbert, the late night comedian whose show follows "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, will start to run ads "supporting" Gov. Perry under his new super pac, "Americans for a Better, Better Tomorrow."
Colbert, a liberal who assumes the parody persona of a right wing talk show host, will no doubt support Perry in his ad as much as Tina Fey supported Sarah Palin in 2008. The preview of the ad showed an Iowa farm photographed in false colors with an overcast sky, with the caption, "A storm is gathering over Iowa." One wonders what or whom Colbert is talking about.
Perry will no doubt come into a lot of ribbing for his religious faith, his Texas accent, and his hair. Indeed it will be assumed that the fact Perry comes from Texas at all will be thought of as hysterically funny, at least to Colbert's stoner/slacker audience. The secession comment will also be dredged up.
One also has no doubt that Colbert, besides wanting to get a few laughs, actually thinks that his joke ad is somehow going to do harm to Perry's chances to become president. It is a conceit that Colbert shares with his Comedy Central colleague Jon Stewart that his nightly performances can actually move public opinion.
Perry himself, likely unaware that he is about to receive the tender support of Colbert's super pac, was in San Antonio speaking before a National Conference of State Legislatures. Perry proclaimed the recent Standard & Poor's down grade of American public debt vindicated his stingy approach to government spending. He touted his record of spending and tax restraint and of job creation. One wonders how Colbert intends to make a joke out of that.
Perry is expected to announce for president at a Conservative bloggers' convention in South Carolina, an early primary state. At that point he will vie with Michele Bachmann and perhaps Sarah Palin for the honor of being the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. If Perry wins that contest, he has a good chance of knocking off Romney. After all, Perry cannot count as one of his accomplishments a form of health care reform that became the model of the hated Obamacare.
Then he becomes Obama's -- and Colbert's -- nightmare.
Texas resident Mark Whittington writes about state issues for the Yahoo! Contributor Network.
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