Herman Cain channels his inner Colbert

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About a month ago, Governor Jan Brewer and the faux outrage chorus of the right-wing noise machine all got their panties in a twist when President Obama channeled his inner Colbert:

You know, they said we needed to triple the Border Patrol. Or now they’re going to say we need to quadruple the Border Patrol. Or they’ll want a higher fence. Maybe they’ll need a moat. (Laughter.) Maybe they want alligators in the moat. (Laughter.) They’ll never be satisfied. And I understand that. That’s politics.

Former Godfather's Pizza executive and current GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain recently went one better than President Obama. Where is the outrage chorus now? (You mean you haven't even heard about this?) Cain’s Plan For Securing The Border: Build The Great Wall Of China, Fill A Moat With Alligators | ThinkProgress:

Herman Cain is a man of many unusual ideas. The GOP presidential candidate and conservative favorite had several big applause lines during his address to the Iowa Family Leader audience on Monday. But the crowd’s most enthusiastic response was inspired by Cain’s novel ideas about how to secure the border.

Cain dismissed naysayers who think it’s impractical to build a tall fence along the entire length of the U.S.–Mexico border, which is nearly 2,000 miles long. He compared the effort to the Great Wall of China and called for the U.S. to build its own Great Wall, saying, “I think we can build one if we want to!” Cain also endorsed an idea President Obama made jokingly during a recent trip to Texas — building a moat along the border. Echoing Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), Cain added, “And I would put those alligators in that moat”:

CAIN: I just got back from China. 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…It will be a twenty 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!

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Maybe Cain will build it by stacking Godfather's Pizza boxes into the shape of the Great Wall of China.

As General George S. Patton sagely observed, “Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”