Cain’s Plan For Securing The Border: Build The Great Wall Of China, Fill A Moat With Alligators

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Cain’s Plan For Securing The Border: Build The Great Wall Of China, Fill A Moat With Alligators
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/08/239145/herman-cain-great-wall-plan/


As ThinkProgress has documented this week, 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!

Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/08/239145/herman-cain-great-wall-plan/

[marmar]

1. If you display any semblance of sanity, you'll be denied membership in the Republican Party.

nt

[rfranklin]

2. A jobs program! But they would probably hire illegal aliens...

and then dump them over the wall as the last bricks are put in place.

[Horse with no Name]

11. Tell them they have to cross the alligator infested waters to get their money

Sounds about right.

[KamaAina]

3. The Great Wall of China was perhaps the ultimate EPIC FAIL.

Rivaled only by the Maginot Line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China#History

The Manchus were finally able to cross the Great Wall in 1644, when the gates at Shanhaiguan were opened by Wu Sangui, a Ming border general who disliked the activities of rulers of the Shun Dynasty. The Manchus quickly seized Beijing, and defeated the newly founded Shun Dynasty and remaining Ming resistance, to establish the Qing Dynasty.

I think Bible Spice has found herself a study buddy for history. :dunce:

[KamaAina]

4. Go ahead. Fill the moat with alligators.

'Gator makes pretty good eating. People are probably starving by the time they get to the border. Plus, they could sell the 'gator skins for some cash to start their lives here. :P

[KansDem]

5. Okay...but just so long as the alligators aren't union!

[mysuzuki2]

6. The great wall of China did not keep out the Mongols and

Hadrians wall did not keep the Picts out of Britain. What makes anyone think a wall at the US/Mexico border would work any better?

[izquierdista]

7. And then...

I'd put razor wire on top of the wall, and then...
I'd infect the alligators with bubonic plague, and then...
I'd put machine gun nests every 10 feet, and then...
I'd put laser guided cruise missiles on top of the wall, and then...
I'd strap flame throwers on the backs of the alligators, and then...
I'd plant some of Seymour's plants from 'Little Shop of Horrors' at the base of the wall, and then...
I'd put Frenchmen on top of the wall to taunt anyone who gets close to it, and then...
I'd put catapults and rain cows and pigs on top of anyone who got close, and then...




OK Herman, time for your meds.

[JoePhilly]

8. Herman Cain's new slogan ... Solutions from the 5th Century!!

[saras]

9. You didn't think they were going to settle for the nineteenth, did you?

[JoePhilly]

12. I think the GOP goal is to target solutions from around 1840.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Can we use that moat to dump ineffective politicians??

Just asking...

Cheaper than having to pay them retirement for a job not well done.

[Nailzberg]

13. A moat? Has he heard of the Rio Grande?

[chowder66]

14. Cain stole part of that from Stephen Colbert....

So did Obama according to Colbert...video at link;

"Stephen Colbert thinks President Obama is riding his "moat-tails" by stealing his idea to put an alligator-filled moat along the Mexican border.

In a speech on immigration this week, Obama said that no matter what he does, Republicans keep complaining that he's not doing enough -- even if he does exactly what they asked him to do in the first place.

Colbert said he wasn't fooled by Obama's speech, calling it out as a thinly veiled campaign event to attract Latino voters.

"A total Latino panderfest," Colbert said. "Excuse me, pander-fiesta."


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