Texans For a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow

Lotto Fever is everywhere. Tomorrow is the drawing for the Mega Millions Jackpot. It's at $540 Million, but don't bother to buy a ticket. Stephen has the winning ticket: 01 02 03 04 05 06 which is the same as his bank PIN - oops, edit that out, Jimmy.

Stephen shared the science of picking numbers according to a segment on Good Morning America.

1. Make sure the numbers you play have never come up before.
2. Pick your own numbers.

At this point, Stephen plugged his new book, "Stephen Colbert's How To Win a Coin Toss Every Time." And he demonstrated exactly how he can do that. Amazing!

The Wisconsin Primary is coming up and you would think that Wisconsinites would like Rick Santorum, given that he's a wheel of Colby Cheese - not that sharp and holier than thou. But in recent polls, he is at 31% compared to Romney's 38%. Part of that may have something to do with the amount of money being spent supporting each of those two candidates.

And that leads us into a discussion of Super PACs. According to chron.com, more Texans have contributed to "Stephen Colbert's Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" than have contributed to pro-Romney's "Restore Our Future." And according to The Hill, "the explosion of Super PACs is likely being fueled by a surge of media interest..." and "...Stephen Colbert has brought the issue to late-night television."

As popular as Stephen's Super PAC is, it could be even better. Stephen received an email from Paul at the University of Texas in Austin talking about his urge to start a Colbert Super PAC organization at his school:

"We would table in front of our main building, hold meetings, gather emails for a mailing list, and hold talks at other political organization meetings."

Stephen looked at his audience members and asked, "Should I give my blessing to college students to set up Super PACs?" Wow, talk about the roar of the grease paint, the smell of the crowd. I could barely hear what Stephen was saying, his fans were cheering so loudly! And thus is born Texans For a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow.

Every college should have a Super PAC and Stephen has a Super PAC kit which can be yours for a simple donation of $99. Just head over to www.ColbertSuperPAC.com to get your Super Fun Pack. You get a FEC filing form and cover letter, a Super PAC Instruction manual, an Allen wrench, a dorm room sign, Colbert Super PAC tube socks, an actual Treasure Map, a Turtles Don't Like Peanut Butter t-shirt and more, much, much more!!! (Perhaps an appearance by Stephen Colbert at your college campus????

After this much excitement, it was time for a funny story, so here goes. "You may remember that my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors...and they had a factory in Michigan...he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now, later, he decided to run for Governor of Michigan..and I recall at one parade, where he was going down the streets, he was led by a band...and his band did not know the Michigan fight song. It only knew how to play the Wisconsin fight song. So every time they would start playing "On Wisconsin! On Wisconsin!", my Dad's political people would jump up and down and try to get them to stop because they didn't want people in Michigan to be reminded that my Dad had moved production to Wisconsin."
- Mitt Romney, March 28, 2012

Said Stephen, "Good stuff - It's like he's on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour if the comedy was about losing blue collar jobs." And then a real treat, Stephen, who is not a comedian, did some actual stand up comedy so as to give Mitt some free material. So funny, I'm sure Mitt will be able to use those jokes.

Peter Beinart, Senior Political Writer for Daily Beast, was Stephen's guest tonight. His latest book is "The Crisis of Zionism." Stephen started out singing just a little bit of the theme from the movie "Exodus." (This Land is Mine.) They had a lively discussion and in just under 7 minutes, Peter Beinart and Stephen Colbert "were able to fix the whole Middle East thing."