It’s no wonder all the Republican presidential candidates are flocking to AZ and hoping to be anointed by the king of immigration crackdown, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. AZ’s the proving ground of crazy if you want to be president.
Cain’s ascendency should be no surprise if you understand the tea bagger mentality, and living in AZ I have seen it for years now. It’s hard to strike the right balance of being crazy yet appearing presidential, and there is no better test of that than your stance on immigration. Romney can talk the talk, but it doesn’t sound sincere. His craziness is fake, and they know it. Michelle Backmann strikes all the right chords, she has the crazy look in her eyes, maybe a touch too crazy for the mainstream crazy (maybe she’s just not tall enough?). Cain has it all. Totally sincere craziness without apology.
His solution to the border of the electrified twenty foot fence with warning signs “This Will Kill You” hit the TB’s in their heart strings. That’s what they are looking for. So, it’s no wonder his mea culpa wasn’t really. He seemed to back off and apologize, but he was just kidding.
"It was a joke," Cain said emphatically. "I apologize if I offended anyone. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa."
But when asked later in the news conference why he refused to take ownership of the comments, Cain said that he did, and that he was only apologizing if he offended anyone.
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“It might be electrified. I'm not walking away from that. I just don't want to offend anyone,” he said.
Cain went on to question why so many people are upset by the remarks.
“That wasn’t directed at people here legally, it wasn’t directed at them, so what’s the beef?”
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A non apology apology. It was a joke. But not really. And why should anyone be offended. We are only talking about illegals. Cain’s joke wasn’t the fence, it was the apology. Sheriff Joe liked Cain's sincerity though, and that's what counts.
“I think that’s refreshing. The way things are going in this country, that’s why the people like him and support him, he’s a new fresh face and he’s telling it like it is. So I kind of respect people who are not typical politicians,” he said.
He also added that Cain defended his “electric fence” comment as a mere joke.
“He said it was a joke. And all I can tell you, I take controversy too. I have an electric fence around the tent jail. I have illegal immigrants there, I have illegals on the chain gang. So nobody goes after me. So why are they worried about him making a comment during a campaign, speaking from then heart. It just shows he’s frustrated with the government and he told a joke, I guess,” Arpaio said.
hahaha. Such a funny joke. Killing people at the border. Having lived on the border for over ten years, I guess the electric fence seems more sane than the idea I heard from many right wing lunatics over the years of just planting land mines all along it. The electric fence is so much more humane.
But before Arpaio bestows his golden endorsement he has many other candidates lining up to meet him.
Arpaio added he’s had Perry and Romney call him but still hasn’t endorsed anyone.
“They come to me, I don’t call them,” he said.
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Arpaio hasn’t given Cain his coveted endorsement yet, although he finds his craziness totally sincere. He has to give all the other presidential wannabes a chance to be refreshingly, crazy too.