For politics-as-sheer-fun, you might want to check out Joshua Green's Atlantic piece offering a mock-serious strategy for a mock-serious Stephen Colbert primary run in South Carolina.

Like Colbert at his best, Green eerily comes close to "truthiness" now and then, as when he suggests that the media coverage the comedian would soak up might be bad news for lower-tier candidates, and particularly for Ron Paul, whose young-white-male-internet-based supporters ("pot smokers," says an unnamed Republican consultant) are probably Colbert-watchers as well. Leaping over the top, Green offers a brief discussion of the often-overlooked "drunken college student" demographic.

But I'm guessing Josh is dead serious in offering his services to Colbert as campaign manager. The cool-factor alone--not to mention future book deals and television bookings--would make the gig invaluable.