All Apologies

"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 begins another fun-filled town hall meeting in South Carolina. Those were not the words of some addled citizen with five minutes at the open mic. That was the Number Two man in South Carolina, lieutenant governor Andre Bauer musing on welfare. Suddenly, running off to Argentina to "hike the Appalachian Trail" doesn't seem like such a bad deal after all.

What it does do, besides making every thinking person in the state wince, is make me wonder where all that common sense we were supposed to have went. I was recently surprised and saddened to see that the "Tea Party" continues, and Doctor Orly Taitz filed a lawsuit claiming that Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen just last month. That thin veneer of public sanity continues to drift away, and I cringe at the thought of mid-term elections taking place in a climate where the voice of reason is found on Al Gore's Internet.

Which brings us back to Mister Andre. At just forty years old, it's plain that he sees a future in this governing gig, and he will be running to fill those big shoes left by his predecessor, Mark Sanford. What will the people of South Carolina do? Stay tuned to Fox News and find out. I'm sure they'll have some fair and balanced ideas on the subject.