Colbert’s website indicates the Super Fun PAC is currently sold out. Colbert super PAC stumbles

Comedian Stephen Colbert’s super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Inc., may be longing for yesterday today.

In March, it raised less than $44,000, federal records show — slightly better than its February haul, but still a pittance compared with more than $825,000 it generated primarily late last year, when Colbert’s money-in-politics satire hit its zenith.


Only nine people last month made donations that triggered the reporting of their names and other identifying information, with the bulk of the cash the super PAC raised coming from people who didn’t hit the federal $200-per-election threshold for doing so.

In this way, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, is a super PAC in name only: It’s barely taken advantage of new federal laws it’s designed to mock, where corporations and special interests may make unlimited donations to overtly advocate for or against political candidates.

But after spending just $28,000 last month primarily on legal fees and Internet services, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow — a.k.a. Colbert Super PAC — reported more than $794,400 cash on hand through March 31.

Stunt or not, its fiscal conservancy has landed it better financial standing than nearly all but the most elite super PACs operating this cycle, such as pro-Mitt Romney Restore Our Future and conservative American Crossroads.

Take Endorse Liberty, the main super PAC supporting Republican Ron Paul.

Earlier this year, it pulled in seven-figure sums from PayPal founder Peter Thiel.

That gold mine has since collapsed, as Endorse Liberty today reported raising $13,100 in March and ending the month with less than $54,000 available.

Perhaps struggling super PACs should follow Colbert’s lead by selling gag gifts, which in the comedian’s case is the “Super Fun PAC” that, for $99, comes filled with a how-to booklet, legal documents, wrench, T-shirt, Colbert Super PAC tube socks and door sign that reads: “If the super PAC is caucusing, don’t bother knockusing!”

Colbert’s website indicates the Super Fun PAC is currently sold out.