Poor Herman Cain.  The guy hasn’t figured out that he’s being used as a token, a placeholder, and a fool all at the same time.  I mean, you just gotta feel bad for a guy who is so dense that smart can’t escape.

First off, the Koch Brothers have their hand up the back of his suit coat —

Cain’s campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending. Cain credits a businessman who served on an AFP advisory board with helping devise his “9-9-9” plan to rewrite the nation’s tax code.

And now he’s trying to shut down every decent Tex-Mex restaurant in Texas.

If Herman Cain becomes president, he’ll build an electrified border fence that could kill Mexicans who try to illegally cross into the U.S., the Republican candidate said Saturday.

“It’s going to be 20 feet high. It’s going to have barbed wire on the top. It’s going to be electrified. And there’s going to be a sign on the other side saying, ‘It will kill you — Warning,’” Cain said, according to the New York Times. He also said the sign would be “in English and in Spanish.”

Personally, I think it is a marketing tool.  The fence is there to keep us IN to force us to eat his crappy pizza.

Cain later said it was a joke.  I dunno, call me humorless, but this ain’t real funny to me:

Responding to anyone who might consider his remarks “insensitive,” Mr. Cain said the real fault lies with some illegal immigrants. “It’s insensitive for them to be killing our citizens, killing our border agents,” he said. “That’s what’s insensitive. And that mess has to stop.”

Wait, wait, let me tell you what the joke is ….

Herman Cain.

(Snicker, snicker)