When you think that you have hit the bottom of the barrel, the Indiana GOP has an amazing ability to dig deeper, proving that something worse still exists beneath the bottom of the honey bucket. From a party that embraces those calling rape a "gift from God," and the election of a black man to the presidency proof the country is turning Nazi you would think that there wasn't much deeper that they could go. Then again, why call people Nazis, when you yourself can actually advocate genocide.
A Republican candidate is facing questions about a Facebook comment where, in a discussion about the poor, he stated, “No one has the guts to just let them wither and die.”
Valparaiso resident John Johnston, who is challenging State Rep. Chuck Moseley, D-10th, said Tuesday that he was speaking in hyperbole, and he later clarified that no thoughtful society would let people go hungry.
“I was not trying to hurt anybody’s feelings,” Johnston said. “I saw the opportunity to say something. I think a lot of the poor have no way out, and there’s no motivation to improve your position. It’s like training a child, either you enable them or force them out at some point.”