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Herman Cain: Electrify the Border Fence
Michelle Malkin ^ | 10-15-2011 | Doug Powers

Posted on 10/15/2011 6:06:22 PM PDT by smoothsailing

Herman Cain: Electrify the Border Fence

Doug Powers

October 15, 2011

It’s now a “9999plan: 9 percent personal income tax, 9 percent national sales tax, 9 percent business tax, and a 9 amp jolt if you try to illegally cross into the US.

New York Times:

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.

The remarks, which came at two campaign rallies in Tennessee as part of a barnstorming bus tour across the state, drew loud cheers from crowds of several hundred people at each rally. At the second stop, in Harriman, Tenn., Mr. Cain added that he also would consider using military troops “with real guns and real bullets” on the border to stop illegal immigration.
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It is not the first time that Mr. Cain has floated the idea of an electrified fence. He has told the story many times of a caller to his former radio show who chastised him for talking about building a border fence, saying that such an idea was impractical. Mr. Cain often says he told the caller that he had recently returned from China, and if the Chinese could build the Great Wall then America could build a border fence.

Before we assume that Herman Cain’s suggestion will cause Democrats or even select Republicans to throw even more scorn in his direction, I’d suggest this: Cain could win over many of them simply by saying that in his border plan, the fence would be electrified with power provided by solar panels the government purchased from stimulus-backed green energy companies.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Mexico; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; cain; electric; fence; genius; hermancain; illegalaliens; knowsnato; larazarick; openbordersperry; panderperry; perrybotsattack; romneyperry2012
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To: smoothsailing; All
Hey folks, he obviously made this comment in jest just as he did when he said he wanted to build a moat with alligators along the border.
161 posted on 10/16/2011 8:34:38 AM PDT by 07Jack
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To: exist

Cain the TALKER has no governing record to judge him with on any issue therefore he must be judged based on every word he says and said in the past and the present. You cannot just dismiss his insane idea of electrifying the fence and killing unarmed citizens as he does not mean it.


162 posted on 10/16/2011 8:48:16 AM PDT by jgge
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To: jgge
You cannot just dismiss his insane idea of electrifying the fence and killing unarmed citizens as he does not mean it.

KILLING CITIZENS?

LOL! Your own uncertainty of the strength of your positions was revealed right there.

163 posted on 10/16/2011 8:57:42 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: jgge
cain said on meet the press he was joking and david gregory confirmed that the crowd laughed.
164 posted on 10/16/2011 9:01:13 AM PDT by exist
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To: nhwingut
Perry is the only one that stands between Romney and the nomination.

Always has been. Which is precisely the reason he's taken hits from the right and the left from day one.

165 posted on 10/16/2011 9:02:10 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: potlatch

Those pictures are incredible and thank you for posting them. The fence is just a stupid idea and when someone like Cain the TALKER is saying to electrify it and kill unarmed civilians then it is called political suicide and most importantly anti-American. We do not kill unarmed civilians in America including illegal immigrants.


166 posted on 10/16/2011 9:12:47 AM PDT by jgge
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To: Balding_Eagle

I meant unarmed civilians.


167 posted on 10/16/2011 9:17:05 AM PDT by jgge
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To: exist

Sorry, when someone is running for President he must not joke with electrifying a fence and killing unarmed civilians. Cain the TALKER shows that he is not ready for President, not at all.


168 posted on 10/16/2011 9:18:59 AM PDT by jgge
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To: jgge

What is your position on Cain’s earlier proposal to build a moat with alligators around the electrified fence?


169 posted on 10/16/2011 9:21:47 AM PDT by 07Jack
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To: jgge
Sorry, when someone is running for President he must not joke with electrifying a fence and killing unarmed civilians.

Why do you say that? I kind of liked it even though I preferred it when I thought he was serious.

170 posted on 10/16/2011 9:25:24 AM PDT by exist
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To: jgge

What you meant, but were afraid to put into words was ‘unarmed invaders’.

Come-on be brave, call them what they are...unarmed invaders responding to Perrys financial invitation to invade our country.


171 posted on 10/16/2011 9:52:26 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: smoothsailing

That is such an amazing graphic.


172 posted on 10/16/2011 10:31:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: jgge
Those pictures are incredible and thank you for posting them.

Thanks so much jgge. I post them to those who say Perry has done 'nothing' about the border. Strangely I seldom get a reply back from them, lol.

173 posted on 10/16/2011 10:31:38 AM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

Keep on posting those pics!!


174 posted on 10/16/2011 10:52:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thank you CW!


175 posted on 10/16/2011 10:59:57 AM PDT by potlatch
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To: Waryone

So many lies from you.


176 posted on 10/16/2011 2:40:18 PM PDT by Katarina (Rick Perry the Best man for President ! God bless ElRushbo! Prayers for our troops!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Sounds like the same kind of “punish” as Obama’s “I don’t want to see women punished with a baby.”


177 posted on 10/16/2011 4:16:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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