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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

2012 Latino Republicans Tell Herman Cain to Get Out of the Presidential Race

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:21 AM

Herman Cain, who honestly released a gospel album yesterday, has a harsh take on immigration:

"I just got back from China," Cain told potential voters in Pella, Iowa, in early June. "Ever heard of the Great Wall of China? It looks pretty sturdy. And that sucker is real high. I think we can build one if we want to! We have put a man on the moon, we can build a fence!"

"Now, my fence might be part Great Wall and part electrical technology," Cain continued. "It will be a 20-foot wall, barbed wire, electrified on the top, and on this side of the fence, I'll have that moat that President Obama talked about. And I would put those alligators in that moat!"

Now Republican Latinos are striking back:

"We call on Herman Cain to drop his candidacy for president. His recent comments and lack of practical solutions to solving illegal immigration show he’s not a serious candidate," the Somos Republicans group wrote in a statement released Monday.

"Many Hispanics find his recent comments comparing immigrants to 'invading Huns' offensive, and also insensitive when thousands of immigrants died crossing the desert. We’re looking for practical and humane solutions, and find Cain’s pandering to xenophobes disgusting.

So it's Cain's move. Personally, I think he's crazy enough to tell them that he's sensitive to Hispanic issues because he's the mastermind behind Godfather's Taco Pizza, which I recently learned was the least disgusting item on Godfather's roundly disgusting menu.

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The majority of the Great Wall is just an earthen rampart, the awesome stone part with the crenelations and shit isn't that big.

Historically, dynasties that invested heavily in building or maintaining the wall generally fell quickly. It never worked at keeping invaders out.

Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings

on July 12, 2011 at 10:31 AM

I honestly see no problem with this approach if done right. Create a 3 mile buffer zone between the Mexico/ US border, and place the fence there.

Additionally add land mines on a half mile stretch on the closer side of the DMZ zone and place land mines and LOTS OF SIGNS noting land mines and explosives.

I might actually vote for this guy specifically because of this. At least I know he is serious, unlike the Obummer guy I voted for.

Posted by Sounds like a plan! on July 12, 2011 at 10:37 AM

We should base all our policy decisions on what people did 2500 years ago.

Posted by Ben on July 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM

Didnt we just spend 800 million on a fence, only to have it not actually work according to the spec?

Posted by Kinison

on July 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM

Yeah, let's all bend over backwards to take the Latino Republicans seriously.

Both of them.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on July 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM

NOW they say he's not a serious candidate???!!! Like, they thought no-more-than-3-page bills was a serious policy proposal? Har.

Posted by bemusedkitty on July 12, 2011 at 11:55 AM

1

you're right.
we should invade Mexico.

Posted by nipitinthebud on July 12, 2011 at 12:23 PM

The Great Wall was build to keep people in, not out, to delineate between 'civilization' and barbarians, between real people and ghosts. As though invaders never thought to build a ladder... Not to mention I'd be glad to be compared to the Huns, they kicked serious amounts of ass. None of which is to say Cain isn't an idiot, cuz he oh so clearly is.

Posted by NateMan on July 12, 2011 at 12:24 PM

Latino Republicans? They should throw a party with the gay Republicans! They could have a pinata full of empty dreams!

Posted by Vince on July 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM

@5 McCain won 31% of the Latino vote, and Bush won 35% and 44% in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Just sayin.

Posted by T on July 12, 2011 at 12:41 PM

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. If anything made by God can be overcome, anything made by man can be overcome."

~Gen. George S. Patton

Posted by Urgutha Forka on July 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM

Pardon me for asking but... what is this "latino republican" of which you speak?

Posted by TreGibbs on July 12, 2011 at 1:14 PM

HAH!

I love how liberals keep calling conservatives in the Tea Party racist. If that's true, how do you explain Herman Cain's popularity and Allen West?

ROTFLMAO!

Posted by Lord Basil