Whacko Lt. Governor from South Carolina

This was definitely the story that raised our eyebrows here at Real Law Radio. Wow. There's no telling what this guy would do if he ever came to power. With guys like Andre around, why fear Obama's death panels? Andre might just starve you or a family member to death. Here's what he actually said, in his own words:

“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.”

Uh, who . . .exactly . . . are . . . "they" . . . .?

South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer's remarks came during a speech in which he said government should take away assistance if those receiving help didn't pass drug tests or attend parent-teacher conferences or PTA meetings if their children were receiving free and reduced-price lunches.

So here we see a republican candidate for state-wide office actually threatening to use government to control the people he serves. Huh? He continued: "You go to a school where there's an active participation of parents, and guess what? They have the highest test scores. So what do you do? You say, 'Look folks, if you receive goods or services from the government and you don't attend a parent-teacher conference, bam, you lose your benefits'."

His is an opinion expressing a perspecitve that harkens to fascism. This guy wants the state to intervene in the social affairs of those on state assistance in a way that violates basic inidvidual freedoms and human rights (how can someone on assistance "bam" - as he put it - suffer the loss of assistance as a consequence for missing a PTA meeting or having what he called "too many children"? ). But he's a republican. Party of Lincoln for God's sake! Presumably a conservative. So what is going on?

Bauer's approach seems (when sanitized) to say there should be consequences for not living well if you're on government aid. But he actually goes beyond that. And it's not indicitave of republicans, per se.

Sometimes racism is just not that transparent, though the racist tries to make it so.