Dr. Boyce Watkins Calls Herman Cain a Court Jester

Syracuse professor feels Cain is being used by the right

Syracuse professor Dr. Boyce Watkins recently went on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 to debate Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's viability to win the GOP nomination and subsequent election.

"This idea of gimmicks and turning yourself into a black male Sarah Palin or a black male Rush Limbaugh that might be good for selling books or getting a radio show, but it's not what people are going to look for in a Commander in Chief," Watkins said. "Actually I would argue that he's a little bit more like a court jester as it stands today."