As House Minority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina says, most Americans are sick and tired of the kind of loaded language used by his state's Republican Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, who last week compared helping poor people to "feeding stray animals."
Clyburn noted that Bauer rhetoric -- particularly his his reference to "breeding" -- was rooted in an era that most people in this country want to leave in the past.
It will be interesting to see see whether Bauer's backwards pronouncements will help him in his bid to win the GOP gubernatorial primary in South Carolina. Hopefully, South Carolina's Republican voters will reject Bauer's nonsense, but if they don't, this is the kind of thing that a strong Democratic candidate could build a campaign around.