# Potentially stupid question: COULD Colbert become President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 19, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potentially-stupid-question-could-colbert-become-president/610060 "2012-01-19T20:22:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potentially-stupid-question-could-colbert-become-president/610060/21 "2012-01-20T13:51:22Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > You mean, like the President gets killed by a bear? > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Or bees. Or bears that shoot bees out of their mouths. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potentially-stupid-question-could-colbert-become-president/610060/22 "2012-01-20T15:27:35Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Hell, with an online nomination, I’d almost guarantee that Colbert would win that nomination. Just look at all the other crap Colbert has had named for him or managed to get Colbert Nation to do. I mean, there was a bridge in Hungary, a Canadian hockey team, an ice cream flavor, a leatherback turtle, an airplane, a species of spider, an elephant seal, and (at first) the new wing of the ISS. You forgot Stephen Junior, the eagle, who I think defected to Canada at some point (he had a tracking device attached to his leg). To answer the OP. Yes, it is theoretically possible. It is also theoretically possible because of quantum physics to walk though a wall, just wildly improbable. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potentially-stupid-question-could-colbert-become-president/610060/23 "2012-01-20T18:08:54Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And a similarly improbable set of tragic circumstances places Colbert against the Dems’ last-minute nominee, Senator Al Franken. > > Is it wrong to pray for many deaths, if the outcome be so glorious? Nope. Not Franken. I’m fine with Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potentially-stupid-question-could-colbert-become-president/610060/24 "2012-01-20T20:59:42Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Or bears that shoot bees out of their mouths. _Dogs_ that shoot bees out of their mouths. Having **bears** do that would just be silly\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potentially-stupid-question-could-colbert-become-president/610060/25 "2012-01-20T21:02:24Z")
Stephen Colbert is on fire! [Today](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_COLBERT_PRIMARY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-01-20-15-37-34) he told a crowd to vote for Herman Cain, saying he has believed Cain’s message for “several days now”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potentially-stupid-question-could-colbert-become-president/610060/26 "2012-01-21T03:34:39Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And a similarly improbable set of tragic circumstances places Colbert against the Dems’ last-minute nominee, Senator Al Franken. > > Is it wrong to pray for many deaths, if the outcome be so glorious? Best Presidential debate ever! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potentially-stupid-question-could-colbert-become-president/610060.md?page=1)