Voting is no laughing matter. Or is it?

John Stewart is a likable guy. A funny man that rakes in a seven figure salary, via his nightly charades on comedy Central. I have to admit, the guy is funny and he does take a fair amount of jabs at both sides of the political isle. However, I still think that he relishes poking fun at conservatives far more than liberals.

Now comes the great comedian to the task of trying to turn out the vote and pump up the people for Obama and the democrats next week. Paired with his sibling from Comedy Central (Stephen Colbert), the two (with the help of the likes of Oprah and Arianna Huffington) look to turn back the tide of the Tea Party and Glenn Beck's rally in August on the mall.

A rally to restore sanity?

Democrats are looking to a pair of comedians to do what President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and dozens of other leaders haven’t done yet this election season: Get party members excited about voting.
Comedy Central television hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert expect tens of thousands of fans to join them at the “Rally to Restore Sanity” in Washington Oct. 30, three days before congressional elections across the U.S. The president will appear on “The Daily Show” tonight in his first visit to Stewart’s program since he was elected.
“It will be a great chance to rally the base, especially among young people,” said Curtis Gans, director of the Center for the Study of the American Electorate at American University in Washington. “For Stewart, sanity is a code word for Democratic.”
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said yesterday Obama is going on Stewart’s show because it “reaches an audience that isn’t watching cable television every day, or the nightly newscasts, but they’re probably going to participate in this election.”
Stewart is promoting the rally as a “million moderate march” to counter what he calls extreme rhetoric dominating the national political discussion.

Admittedly, Stewart and Colbert's immediate intention was/is to pump up their own status in the entertainment world of comedy, but their decision to use this ruse as a backdrop to supposedly increase the vote for those who might not normally vote is laughable.

The bottom line, those who watch the Colbert Report and The Daily Show are by and large liberals who intend to vote liberal to begin with. So nothing is gained by this stunt, aside from the reality that apparently Glenn Becks "Restoring Honor" rally really pissed off the loony left so badly, that they had to mount an offensive to seemingly offset the Beck effect in the public eye.

Keep in mind that Oprah hyping this and Arianna Huffington hiring buses to carry in bus loads to this political comedy is no accident. There is an undercurrent of liberal elitist money flowing beneath this event that would rival the evil that seeped and soared beneath Gotham in the classic movie Ghost busters.

But in the final analysis, the end result will not be noticeably changed by as much as one percentage point. The battle lines have been drawn and come next Tuesday, those on both sides of the isle will vote as they have already decided.

Perhaps in years gone by, the undecided and moderates waited until the last minute to make a choice, but not this time. they have know for months who they intended to vote for and how they intended to vote period. Two years of a stale economy and staggering unemployment will do that to a voter base.

So best wishes to Stewart and Colbert Saturday. I hope their spectacle is at least entertaining. But I seriously don't expect it to change any minds or any votes come Tuesday.