The Haiti earthquake has really brought the GOP braintrust out in full force. Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Mark Krikorian have all embarrassed themselves lately. The latest member to speak is South Carolina’s Lt. Governor Andre Bauer. In his case he wasn’t talking about Haiti in particular, just poor people in general:
Bauer, who’s running for the Republican nomination for governor, made his remarks during a town hall meeting in Fountain Inn that included state lawmakers and about 115 residents.
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better,” Bauer said.
Bauer is obviously running for SC governor on a platform of compassionate conservatism.