Shady Polling Group Asks Smear Questions About Elizabeth Colbert Busch
LatestPerhaps you’ve heard of Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the Democratic candidate in South Carolina’s upcoming special congressional election. If you don’t live in South Carolina’s first congressional district, you might only know that Elizabeth Colbert Busch is the sister of beloved AmeriCone Dream ice cream spokesman Stephen Colbert (who has used his ice cream goodwill to shamelessly rhapsodize on his sister’s many wonderful leadership qualities), and that she’s running against noted adulterer and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, of the dour-faced Sanfords. She seems like a winner already, doesn’t she?
Ah, but what if someone called you up on the phone and asked if you, a female resident of South Carolina’s first congressional district and a registered Democrat, were aware that Elizabeth Colbert Busch once had an abortion, or that a judge held her in contempt of court during her divorce proceedings? What would you say about that, hmm? Hopefully, you’d say that, even if those completely unsubstantiated claims were true, they’re not at all germane to the current special election, and, anyway, Mark Sanford flat-out disappeared while he was ostensibly running South Carolina just so that he could fly down to Argentina and have sex. Then you’d hang up and go about your day. Hopefully, that’s exactly what you’d do, but the hypothetical reasonableness of South Carolina voters hasn’t stopped a shadowy polling firm from conducting a misleading poll in an apparent effort to plant a seed of doubt about Elizabeth Colbert Busch’s character in the minds of Democratic voters.