boston.com – The three challengers to Attorney General Martha Coakley have been eager for more debates with the perceived front-runner in the US Senate race, and they have asked for them pointedly — none more than Alan Khazei.

Khazei, after challenging Coakley on that point in a radio debate this morning, this afternoon turned to a different technique: Calling on comedian Stephen Colbert to come to Massachusetts and moderate a debate. Colbert, the host of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report,” plays a right-wing commentator on the show.

“Are you tough enough to come here to Massachusetts — the birthplace of freedom, the birthplace of our democracy — and moderate a debate up against four progressive Democrats?” Khazei asked Colbert in a video posted on his campaign website. “I’ll show up anytime, anywhere, any hour, any day.”

“So Stephen, are you willing to come?” Khazei asks. “I’ll be there.”

Khazei appeared on Colbert’s show as a guest in January to promote a national day of service on Martin Luther King Day.

“I believe Martin Luther King also said, ‘Follow the money,’” Colbert said at one point. “‘I’ve got my mind on my money and my money on my mind,’ is one of the things I believe he said.”

“I can assure you, Martin Luther King did not say that,” Khazei responded.

A U.S. Senatorial debate moderated by Stephen Colbert is a bloggers dream.   The resulting material will be endless. The debate out-takes will be hilarious and not in a flattering way either.  It’s without a doubt that at least one of these candidates, if not all,  will try to compete with Mr. Colbert’s wit and with that look totally foolish.  Case and point is the video that Mr. Khazei put together to bait Mr. Colbert into being the moderator. It’s a good idea, but poor execution.  A last second hail Mary, by a candidate seriously behind in the polls, that fell to the ground 5 yards short of the goal line.

If there is a God in heaven, please, please, please, please make this happen!

BTW – I appreciate the attempt at humor and if he actually gets Mr. Colbert to moderate it will be quite a coup, but could Mr. Khazei and his office look any less senatorial in this video?

-Gipper’s Ghost

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