S.C. GOP considered naming primary after Stephen Colbert
Looking for ways to fund the state’s upcoming presidential primary, the South Carolina Republican Party briefly negotiated selling “naming rights” to its upcoming 2012 contest to comedian Stephen Colbert.
State party officials ultimately rejected the idea of renaming its 2012 contest, ‘The Colbert Nation Super PAC Presidential Primary,” but the South Carolina GOP still pursued adding a question proposed by Colbert to the state’s 2012 primary ballot in exchange for a “sizable donation” from the Comedy Central host.
The proposed question asked whether voters in the state believe “corporations are people” or “only people are people.”
The Onion might as well give up if this story is true.