Mitt The Ripper

Ever since the infamous Supreme Court "Citizens United" decision, Stephen Colbert has been engaged in a piece of long-running, high-concept political theater - creating his own flagrantly-corrupt "SuperPAC" to raise money for his own not-at-all-directly-coordinated political career - to point out the absurd possibilities of the new campaign laws.

As of last week, the performance has entered a new act: Colbert will run for president in the South Carolina Republican primary, while an "unaffiliated" party - Jon Stewart - will take over Colbert SuperPAC, making it "legal" for the SuperPAC's funds to be spent on Colbert's campaign... a legal manuver that required only ONE document to be signed. The point, of course, is to point out how simple it would be for a REAL campaign to pull the same basic shennanigans.

In any case, "Colbert SuperPAC" has released it's first ad, targeted at Colbert's "opponent" Mitt Romney, that joins in the chorus continuing to slap Romeny around for the "corporations are people" line: If Mitt thinks corporations are people, argues the ad, his time as a Venture Capitalist (read: corporate raider) makes him a serial killer:

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