Herman Cain to Discuss Electrocuting Mexicans at Tonight's Debate

The more these Republican candidates talk, the crazier they seem. I keep tuning in to their debates, in part to cover them for Benzinga, and in part because you never know which candidate will go crazy and say something stupid. It's only a matter of time before Santorum advocates killing random Muslims or Bachmann suggests re-education camps for gays. Oh, wait. They already do. Bachmann's husband runs a camp to "treat" gayness. I hate to break it to Marcus, but, well...it's a good thing they use Don't Ask, Don't Tell around the Bachmann household. Allegedly. Anyway, Herman Cain has decided he is not only running for the nomination of the Republican Party, but also King of the Disgusting, Sadistic Deliverance-Family Vote. His newest policy idea is to build an electric fence along the Mexico border. That's right: Herman Cain wants Mexicans seeking to come to America to electrocute themselves and die in the process. That. Is. #$%*ed. Up. Naturally, the Republican primary voters, who are ostensibly Christians yet behave like bloodthirsty Romans at the Coliseum, apparently cannot wait to feed Mexicans to the lions. In what world is this policy idea seen as acceptable, rather than the ranting ideas of a lunatic fringe? It's a border, ferchrissakes, not a bug zapper for snatching mosquitoes out of the air. THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS. Does anyone in the Republican Party even recognize humanity any more? In what version of the Bible does Jesus command his followers to build a fence and electrocute thy neighbor? Who needs turn the other cheek when you can just zap the little buggers? Luckily for the sane among us, tonight is yet another GOP debate, which gives another journalist an opportunity to ask Herman Cain why he is a psychopath. Between this "Murder all the Immigrants" and his "Raise Taxes on Poor People" plans, Cain is certainly registering more than a few hits on the DSM-IV-TR manual for diagnosing mental illness. Have you heard of Cain's plan to raise taxes on poor people? It's clever. He calls it the 9-9-9 plan, and he appears to have stolen the idea from, of all places, The Sim City franchise of video games. (Seriously...check the story out,

.) Cain's plan, which does not appear to include cheat codes or God mode, attempts to simplify the tax code down to something that even Republicans can understand: One number, one tax rate for everything. But when you dig into the details, you see that this is a monumentally stupid plan. Actually, you don't even have to dig that far. It's right there on the surface. What's the 9-9-9 plan? It's a 9 percent tax on income, a 9 percent tax on corporations, and a 9 percent national sales tax. It represents about enough income to fund HALF of the government. It also gives a giant (largest in history) tax cut to the wealthy while raising taxes (again, largest in history) on the poor in this country. It is, quite literally, the dumbest idea ever presented by a major presidential candidate in the 200+ year history of the Republic. Naturally, Republicans vaulted Cain into first in some polls, second place in others. Somewhere, a frustrated Mitt Romney has to be pulling out his hair and wondering why he didn't think to just say whatever random, stupid, insane policy idea came to his mind. In any case, tonight's debate, set for 8 pm EST on CNN, will feature the wonderful Anderson Cooper as the moderator. We'll follow up tomorrow with how the candidates did, who won, who lost, and as usual, how far that obtuse moron Rick Perry has fallen in the polls.