Posted on 03/03/2013 12:03:23 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Tweets on Elaine Chao: 'They will not get away with attacking my wife,' Mitch McConnell says
WINCHESTER, Ky. -- Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a liberal group on Saturday for criticizing the Asian heritage of his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, calling its Twitter messages "racial slurs" and "the ultimate outrage."
"They will not get away with attacking my wife in this campaign," McConnell told about 100 home-state supporters at a Republican dinner in Winchester.
"This woman has the ear of @McConnellPress — she's his #wife," the group Kentucky Progress tweeted on Feb. 14. "May explain why your job moved to #China!"
McConnell forcefully defended Chao, who was born in Taiwan and who moved to the U.S. as an 8-year-old with her family aboard a freight ship."Elaine Chao is just as much an American as any of the rest of them," McConnell said. "In fact, she had to go through a lot more to become an American."
McConnell's aides had already criticized the tweets.
"Secretary Chao and her family are shining examples of the American dream: salt-of-the-earth folks who escaped oppression, came here with nothing, joined our great melting pot, worked exceptionally hard to build a thriving business, and then dedicated so much of their lives to giving back," said Jesse Benton, manager of McConnell's re-election campaign. "It is unconscionable that anyone would use blatant race-baiting for political gain."
Progress Kentucky removed the offending comments from Twitter after Louisville public radio station WFPL-FM aired reports about them. And the group issued two apologies over the past week for what they described as "inappropriate tweets sent by our organization."
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It appears that there is, in fact, something Mitch McConnell is willing to fight for. Good for him.
Backtracking ...
Progress Kentucky Recommits to Appropriate and Vigorous Debate
If Republicans were smart, they’d tie this anti-Asian racism to Obama, just as Akin was tied to Romney, but no... we’re too busy making sure we only get ‘electable conservatives’. Can’t have another Christine O’Donnell, you know!
You ain’t seen nothing unless you’ve seen some of the crap flung at Michelle Malkin.
Everything Mitch does is kind of Squintty...
Confucius say man who attack man thru woman have little feet.
Confucius say man who attack man thru woman have little feet.
Yeah ...
I’ve seen the vile posts and tweets Malkin gets; she posts them on her Twitchy site
The campaign to elect Ashley Judd has begun.
If it weren’t for Al Franken, Maxine Waters, Shelia Jackson Lee etc. etc. etc. I’d just laugh this off.
created and designed by Ashley Judd
Yeh, Mitch baby, you go get ‘em, you’re a regular pitbull; but, save some of it for your good ‘rat friends in the Senate.
Yes they will. What will he do, give them 20 lashes with a wet noodle?
“watcha gonna do ‘boutit, Yertle?”
————David Plouffe
-PJ
I am of Chinese descent.
I will say that any politican defending anything chinese IS A LOSING PROPOSITION.
Let's look at our Michigan 2012 senate candidate ok. He ran a really stupid 2012 super bowl ad smearing chinese. Did any republican or democrat really make much of this ? Not really because bashing Chinese is good politics.
Blacks don't like chinese because the value system is really different. Most americans don't like chinese because next to jews, they are the highest income group. America does not like the chinese stuff at walmart. They don't like chinese for overrunning all the prestige schools in the US (Cal Tech is 40% oriental, the flagship UC schools at Berkeley and UCLA are 50% oriental).
Frankly, anyone who says bad stuff about Chinese will probably go up in the polls.
lol! Ashley Judd a "democRATic leader"?
Shouldn't they wait until she holds some sort of elected office?
He also say: man who go through turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok
Bullsheite, I have nothing against Chinese people, it's the commie freakin government that is bent on ruling the world I despise.
I despise all commies.
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