Remember when President Obama made the same alligator moat joke?
Rick Perry called it reprehensible back then.
Rick Perry
yesterday, mocking the idea of building a fence along the border:
HANNITY: You don't need a fence, in your view?
PERRY: Oh, I think there's places that strategic fencing...
HANNITY: [interrupting] But not across the whole border?
PERRY: I think the idea of saying, "Listen, I'm gonna build a double fence, we're going to put alligators between it, and we're going to put lava in there, as well." You know, one tries to outdo the other one. That's 2,000 miles.
President Obama making the same joke in May:
THE PRESIDENT: 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.
And finally Rick Perry saying President Obama's joke—the one that he stole—was reprehensible:
PERRY: This is a president who more interested in trying out for Saturday Night Live, it seems like. [...] We need this administration engaged, to be actively finding solutions, not standing up and doing Saturday Night Live comedy in El Paso, Texas and making fun of people who are putting their lives on the line. I find that to be reprehensible.
Nice flop, nice flop. Turns out Perry's got a little Mitt Romney in him after all, I guess.