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Liberal SuperPAC Sent Racially-Charged Tweets About Mitch McConnell's Wife

Republicans call the messages 'race-baiting' and 'disgusting'

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by Mary Noble

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Progress Kentucky made headlines recently by promising to fund a Tea Party primary candidate against Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell.

They're in the spotlight again for a series of unpleasant tweets about McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, who was Labor Secretary under George W. Bush.

"This woman has the ear of @McConnellPress - she's his #wife. May explain why your job moved to #China!" tweeted Progress Kentucky (@ProgressKy) on Feb 14. The Tweet links to a conspiracy theorist website alleging that Chao discriminated against American workers as Labor Sec.

Other messages allege that McConnell is being influenced by Chao's father, who has business ties to China and is a Republican donor (both perfectly normal activities for an American businessman).

A spokesman from Progress Kentucky claims that the tweets are unimportant: "It's not an official statement. It's a Tweet. And we will remove it if it's wrong," he told WFPL. "People make mistakes in Tweets...Inferring [sic] that Elaine Chao is not a U.S. citizen was not our intention." He claimed the tweets merely suggested that Chinese interests influence McConnell's political decisions.

Jesse Benton, McConnell's campaign spokesman, called the tweets "race-baiting" and said the group "should really be ashamed." Other Republicans have called on prominent Democrats like Harry Reid to condemn the "disgusting" messages.

Via Fox News and Talking Points Memo.
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  • CanadianIndy
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    @AntiPorcheria
    This is true, however, just because you have the right to do something, doesn't mean that the label is nullified. Case in point: Michelle Bachmann. Rep. Bachmann obviously has the right to be whatever she chooses (unless you're going by the Republican platform, in which case you can't be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, Muslim, a pot-smoker or non-gun-owner). So she has the /right/ to be stupid. As does anyone, if they so choose. But guess what? Michelle Bachmann /actually is/ stupid!
    Here's my evidence:
    - "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too" -Rep. Michele Bachmann, getting her John Waynes mixed up during an interview after launching her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, where she grew up. The beloved movie star John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, three hours away. The John Wayne that Waterloo was home to is John Wayne Gacy, a notorious serial killer.(June 2011)
    - "I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?" -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a new McCarthyism, Oct. 2008
    - "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 2009
    - "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, April, 2009
    - "If we took away the minimum wage -- if conceivably it was gone -- we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level." -Michele Bachmann, Jan. 2005
    - "But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, botching American history while speaking at an Iowan's for Tax Relief event in January 2011. The Founding Fathers did not work to end slavery, and John Quincy Adams was not one of the Founding Fathers.

    I rest my case.

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  • stepped_in_it
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    Not only should we RE-ELECT NOBODY 2014......just how long will our idiots-in-charge come to the conclusion that Tweets are for the ignorant. Jeez, when did it become cliche to put one's thought on public display? We have the proverbial "15 minutes of fame". Tweeting proves people want far more than 15 minutes....
    NEVER RE-ELECT NOBODY.....EVER!
  • martydotcom
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    where are Ashley's jugs now that we need them. Must have been a quote that Fox TPM, REDSTATE or Brietbart published. Hhow did Politix miss it?

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  • zachsquatch
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    I had the opportunity to hear her speak at an event, she's a very intelligent and down to earth lady. If you ever want to know what the left is up to, just listen to what they're accusing the right of doing.
  • Realthinker
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    Yes! I have been preaching that sermon for years. Whatever the Democrats are acusing the Republicans of doing is what the Democrats themselves are doing.
  • Zazziness
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    @Realthinker Other people choose to observe reality and base their understanding of it on real events but if you prefer fantasy, that's your right.
  • BossTweed
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    This is but one reason why the current verison of Democrats disgust and dishonor the memories of generations of proud American Democrats. Today, acts like these confirm that many are nothing more than poorly parented Street Trash.
  • Sonny
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    Yep, g4me---its ----"Kentucky"!! Not exactly any kind of bastion of ethnic or racial "tolerance" by any stretch of the imagination.
  • Realthinker
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    @zeke We know what this person means: the people of the state of Ky are uneducated inbreeding idiots. Bigoted in the extreme which is what's wrong with those tweets, not racist so much as arrogant elitest bigotry.
  • Sonny
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    @zeke Meaning....What should anyone expect from a state that didn't even pass the 13th amendment abolishing slavery---until 1976--!!!

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  • Jim49418
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    Just more racism from the left. They think it's o-k, and continue to call anyone who isnt in love with Obama a "racist",......so to them,... it's o-k to make racist comments themselves.
  • PNWest
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    @ConserveUSA And it's only right that we call it out whenever it happens. No matter which side does it. I'm not willing to sweep it under the rug just because it came from a liberal.
  • jamayla
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    I find it remotely hilarious (and disturbing to a degree) that people in our fine country still insist that there is a distinct difference between political parties.
  • CaryNickel
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    The KKK got it's start as the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party. In a nation where thinking people long ago rightly abandoned racism as abhorrent, I assert that the Democrat Party is the last "politically correct" home of racism in the United States.
  • bsking
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    Nobody should be surprised about the liberal hatred of minorities. they've built their power base on it.
    Also the liberal movie star that wants to run against McConnell has said some very interesting but disgusting things.... well disgusting to normal people not to liberals.
  • PolitixMary K
    Mary Noble, Senior Editor
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    It's a counterintuitive strategy. With McConnell as the Republican senate candidate, Democrats stand no chance of beating him. So they'd love to influence Republicans to nominate a less electable candidate. That's why liberal groups are funding a Tea Party candidate in the primary - they think it will help a Kentucky Democrat get elected to the Senate.
  • jessejaymes
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    @PolitixMary Let me translate for Mary since she's always explaining as though we're all intellectuals at her level when we clearly are not. The left funds a tea bagger so the hicks go YEAH!! and rush to the polls and nominate a yokel who will say something like "legitimate rape" or "i am not a witch" or something that will make such a fool of themselves that even the more tolerant Republicans and the moderates will not be willing to be identified with this yokel and boom, the Dems win with their own yokel. It is after all, politics.

    Re-Elect Nobody 2014
  • Fishbone345
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    @jessejaymes I always nod and smile when Mary posts. Regardless what she says in the post. Mainly because I don't understand most of it, its not bear speak. But, also because her picture comes up next to the post.

    Mary, I jest.:)

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  • JMAC3D
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    They must have took lessons from Republicans like Pete Hoeksta and his "Debbie Spenditnow" ad. the one with the Asian girl riding a bike through a rice field saying "thanks for sending jobs to China in broken english". I didnt see many Republicans condemn him or that ad at the time.
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