I just saw this on TPM: "Stray animals".
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has compared giving people government assistance to "feeding stray animals."
Bauer, who is 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.
In South Carolina, 58 percent of students participate in the free and reduced-price lunch program.
(emphasis mine)
After first reading this, my eyes bugged out. Republicans say ridiculous shit, but this seemed to violate even a warped sense of human decency. I found the audio of the Lt. Governor making the statement. The quote above starts at ~1:50, but the rest of the clip contains some true insight into a diseased mind.
As disgusting as this is, we all know that it will probably help Bauer. It's ok to be racist if you are a Republican-- just say that you are "anti-government." It's perfectly fine for a Republican to call poor people "stray animals" and consider restricting their "ample food supply" such that they won't be able to "breed."
But Martha Coakley calling Curt Schilling a "Yankee fan?" Bitch.