Did He Really Say That, South Carolina Edition

Did South Carolina's Lt. Gov. really compare people on government assistance to stray animals?

"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.

I think that's all fine and dandy. Think what you will about people living off the government. It's rare anymore that we see elected officials being so candid about how they really feel. It's also rare that we see elected officials being so candid while not hiding behind party gatherings. This was said in public with plenty of reporters and non-Republicans present. I guess he thought he was at another Tea Bagger protest but he wasn't.

Taking this for what it is, let's consider for a split second that the Governor of South Carolina has been for years using tax payer money to cheat on his wife and have unbridled, passionate sex (at least that's what he tells us it was) with a woman in Argentina amongst others. It's like Bauer says, if you provide the means then you facilitate the problem. All things being equal, there is no difference between someone using tax payer money to fly around the world to bone women or someone who uses it to buy lunch. Yet I've always been told there is no such thing as a free lunch even if she's hot.

*Update:

Usually an apology is at its most sincere when you don't do the same thing again. Andre Bauer's "not highly educated" grandmother obviously didn't teach him that. It's obvious because Bauer tried to apologize for comparing poor people to animals and then, in the same breath, did it again.

'"There's no way that I was trying to tie animals to people, but what I was trying to talk about is the dependency culture, and just like when you feed an animal, you create a dependency,'" he said."

That's the same thing you idiot. You just said you didn't mean to compare people to animals and then compared them to animals a second time.

So Bauer tried it again with CNN and still could not quit comparing people to animals.

"If you have a cat, if you take it in your house and feed it and love it, what happens when you go out of town?" he asked, adding that he is "not against animals."

This dude lacks a chromosome.