In a phone interview with CNN, Bauer, a Republican candidate for governor, said, "I wish I had used a different metaphor." Bauer told an audience Friday that people receiving government assistance are like "stray animals" because "they breed" and "don't know any better."
"I never intended to tie people to animals," he said, before opting for a kinder animal metaphor: "If you have a cat, if you take it in your house and feed it and love it, what happens when you go out of town?"
Gotta love the, er, kinder metaphor.
I wonder what this oh-so-compassionate Republican has to say about the wealthiest of Americans, the ones who receive the bulk of government handouts at the expense of taxpayers?
