Deadly Border Fence, Shooting Illegal Immigrants as They Try to Cross the Border, What is Neo-Conservatism, - Is this the Beginning of the End of Herman Cain

Note to Political Aspirants:  If You Don’t Know What You Are Talking About, Don’t Talk

Herman Cain has leapt over Rick Perry to become a serious, if temporary, contender for the Republican nomination for President.  The term “temporary” is used because like Ms. Bachmann, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Trump before him, once the spotlight is turned on his candidacy its viability immediately comes into question.

Several issues have come to light for Mr. Cain.  The first is his comments that he would build an electric fence that is capable of killing those who touch it to stop illegal immigration and that he would arm troops with deadly force to stop them (assuming they somehow survive the electric shock treatment.

Herman Cain said 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.

But by Sunday morning, in a dramatic change of tone, Mr. Cain, a former restaurant executive, said he was only kidding.

“That’s a joke,” Mr. Cain told the journalist David Gregory during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,”

But reports from the field indicate it was everything but a joke.

As Ed Wyatt reported on Saturday from Tennessee:

The remarks, which came at two campaign rallies 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.

And his audience, the same type that cheered Texas executions and booed a gay U. S. serviceman serving in Iraq continued to show the true colors of Conservatives,

And the crowds responded with cheers, not laughs.

Yep, that’s those good ole Conservatives again, just the type of folks you want living next door.

On Meet the Press Mr. Cain ran into problems on his 9-9-9 tax plan (What Paul Krugman has termed “Plan 9 From Outer Space”.  Why can’t The Dismal Political Economist come up with things like that?) and  of knowledge about Conservatism

When Mr. Gregory asked if Mr. Cain would describe himself as a “neoconservative,” — . . . Mr. Cain seemed unsure:

MR. CAIN: I’m not sure what you mean by neoconservative. I am a conservative, yes. Neoconservative — labels sometimes will put you in a box. I’m very conservative.

MR. GREGORY: You’re familiar with the neoconservative movement?

MR. CAIN: I’m not familiar with the neoconservative movement. 

But that’s ok Mr. Cain.  Once you are familiar with that movement you will find it is not something you really want to be a part of.