ch: Conservative ‘Values’

Bad Analogies Continued

I previously noted Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum’s attempt to draw parallels between the Lord of the Rings movies/books and the Iraq war. Didn’t really work. But at least that wasn’t offensive. This one, from Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King, is:

A transcript of Two-term Republican Congressman Steve King’s (Iowa) comments made at a Republican fundraiser in Boulders Conference Center showed he compared illegal immigrants to stray cats that wind up on people’s porches. King said at first stray cats help by chasing mice, so people feed them. King added that the stray cats then have kittens, which are liked for their cuteness, but eventually the strays, fed by the people, end up getting lazy, just like illegal immigrants. King would not comment on what he said on that day.

Wonder why.