Texas GOP Latino leader leaves party after Herman Cain 'jokes'

[Playinghardball]

Source: Daily Kos

Only Republicans think it's funny to make jokes about killing people. At a campaign spot in Tennessee, Herman Cain recounted a conversation he had on the radio with a caller opposed to his immigration policies.

We'll have a real fence, 20 feet high with barbed wire, electrified, with a sign on the other side that says, "It can kill you." What do you mean insensitive? What is insensitive is when they come to the United States across our border and kill our citizens and kill our border patrol people.

Ah yes, the mythical killer busboys, landscapers and nannies, rampaging throughout the land murdering people after picking their crops.

Of course, the pizza guy now says this was a "joke", though I don't recall anyone laughing. In fact, at that campaign spot, people cheered the idea of killing brown people trying to cross the border. So as a joke, it kind of sucked.

More at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/17/1027433/-Texas-GOP-Latino-leader-leaves-party-after-Herman-Cain-jokes?via=blog_1

[tk2kewl]

1. was it because of Herman Cain's joke or...

because Herman Cain is a joke? :sarcasm:

[dtexdem]

2. And pay attention Log Cabin Republicans.

and so on and so on

[JaneQPublic]

3. Lawrence O'Donnel found the same statement in Cane's book...

...only the book version presented it as a poliy recommendation, without any indication of it being a joke.