this as far from a slur, they mentioned where she's from, what's the big deal?

Oh, how offended we are! GIVE ME A BREAK. This is race baiting? Are you serious. Let us all not get on this "she is the salt of the earth" nonsense. President Obama has had to take a lot lot lot worse from the likes of Mitch McConnell. Where was the outrage from any of these right wing crazy people? It wasn't. And that race baiting was actually race baiting. This is nonsense and we should not all fall over this as if it was the end of the world. BTW, why are those jobs being sent to China anyway by Mitch? So there!

Even though I am a Republican, I am not a fan of Mitch McConnell. He is too terse, unsmiling, board straight, right wing, Christian conservative for me. He delights too much in finger pointing and telling everyone else what to do and how to do it.

However, it is not right for anyone or any group to criticize a politician's spouse or significant other. Criticize the politician or the candidate all you want, but "the other half" should be strictly off limits; and, of course that would include Mrs. Obama.

So you condemn these racially insensitive statements against Mrs. McConnell, "starsailing"?

It's funny how things come back around. I remember quite well the many Republican luminaries of the 90's bashing Hillary and also coming very close to calling Chelsea a whore. Maybe we should ask how much SSI money Elaine Chao's family received from the taxpayers of this country to get their start? I've never understood how non-Americans can get paid by American taxpayers simply because they came to this country. You would think having the open door would be enough.

Of course no one wants their spouse offended.

However, is McConnell kidding? Since Obama has been in the White House, Mitch has made it a priority to not only thwart every goal of the first African-American president of the U.S., but also to godlessly go after and hurt the most vulnerable people in our society...the poor, women and people of color. Now, when one of the many pebbles that he has thrown in the river creates a ripple for him, in a self-centered manner, HE IS offended. Worse is that McConnell's political platform is aimed at leaving countless people more hungry, financially destitute and bereft of access to medical care.

Sorry Mitch, but other human beings count too.

Oh Please, this man and his people have been playing the race card since Obama was elected!!! From the birther issue to whether hes even a American, some of his people have even shouted out terrible things to the president. It always ok when the sho is on the other foot, but never ok when its on you!!! He needs to wake up him and his kind, they want to play childrens games, then they need to learn the rule, what comes around go arounds!!!!

Pigotry, I disagree with your OP in this thread as it's meaning is misplaced. I am liberal as they come and even some moderates consider me way to the left. This has nothing to do with the fact she is McConnell's spouse, but what her ethnicity is, and that is what is wrong with the group that made the twitter comments and to what they refer. I personally think Chao's politics are inline with right wingers (something most of them do on twitter when they make these kinds of comments), so attacking her political stance is completely OK, regardless if she's married to a senator or any political figure or if she is a spouse. I thought she was abyssmal when she served as Bushes Labor Secretary, just look up her record. Interestingly, she did an OK job under Reagan and Bush Sr.

I seen much worse throw at Obama in the last 4 years. Reading news daily, if this is the trigger point, I say Mitch is a hypocrite.

WOW, is this the best that they can come up with to attampt to slander someone? The time has come for the average American citizen to DEMAND more from their elected representatives. There is no longer any reason for this kind of race baiting. ALL political consideration should be predicated on what the candidate has, is or will do for this country based on constitutionality. Everything else is nothing more than just a distraction.

However, it is not right for anyone or any group to criticize a politician's spouse or significant other. Criticize the politician or the candidate all you want, but "the other half" should be strictly off limits; and, of course that would include Mrs. Obama.

Far as I read the significant other was a" Secretary of Labor" once a politician ,actor ,spot light position ,you are a subject to criticism ,especially when you are related to a situation so sensitive to the American people "Lost Jobs " due to China , she was in the position when all that happened .

"Truth hurts".......Someone ,someday will pay hard for making that happened for all mighty extra dollars so many families destroyed and life's lost .

Roger...what an intelligent comment you made. Especially how you give examples of your accusation. That is the way really intelligent people win debates.

Goodness gracious people, we are all cousins, however distant. Obsessing over the differences between humans resulting from being descended from people from various parts of our planet is absurd in the extreme (among other things, none of them flattering).

@David conservacrat Number one, this thread has NOTHING to do with either topic you mentioned so I'm guessing you will continue to wait. Second, "Libs" did not lie about Romney's taxes. If you had bothered to do a little research about it, you would have found that Romney hid his money in the church. He signed it over to the church and avoided paying any taxes on it for 15 years, (all the while making huge withdrawls into his personal account), and only when he decided he wanted to enter national politics did he take that money out of the trust. THAT sir, is fact end of story. As far as bashing his wife. Get over yourself! It's politics. As long as people continue to go after democrats wives, people will continue to go after republicans wives. What needs to happen is if the right is going to do it, and they do it regularly, they need to quit being surprised when the left does it back. Period! You guys love to cry about a democrat doing to you exactly what you did to them as if all of a sudden it's inappropriate and not fair. Grow up!

So...I see...then you have no problem going forward with the right calling the left racists, right? I mean, after all, you on the right have been screaming from the rooftops about how racist the right is. Then, take your medicine equally. The left are nothing but racists... This should be good going forward calling you out just as you do on the right..

Sorry. The internet is anonymous and easy to forge. Racial slurs are just NOT what nasty, old liberals are all about. In fact, they are usually the ones being slurred. More to the point, the language sounds just like ultra-conservatives fueled by Beck, Limbaugh and crew.

I say this is a manufactured brouhaha in a vain attempt to take the focus off Republican intransigence and embrace of the destruction of the American economy and your and my financial stability, so that they can say, "Ha! See we didn't let those evil Democrats raise your taxes!" This is the feint to catch your eye while the other hand picks your pockets.

News clip: It's not your taxes the Democrats want to raise, baby. It's the top 1% of tax payers.

OTOH, it is the roads you drive on and the schools your kids attend and police that protect your town and veterans that fought for your country and the old people that built the America we're all so proud of that the wicked, foul liberals want to defend and protect.

Like I always say, if you're really in love with "small" government, keep your probes out of my nether regions and move to Somalia. They ain't got NO government there, also no roads or schools or police; and everybody can carry whatever armament they can steal or scrape together the funds to buy.

TAXES are the dues we all pay to live in Country Club America; and if the rich don't want to contribute, they ought to move someplace that they like better.

No self-respecting liberal would ever say anything to slur someone's race, let alone someone's wife's race. Forgery! Lies! Red herrings! Distraction! The underhanded liars who thrive on taking away our liberty and feeding on our fear will stop at nothing to keep your eyes off their recalcitrance! The real culprit is probably some PR guy working for the Heritage Foundation.

Aaaarrrrrrgh!

This is a joke right....A comment on why Mitch and his ilk maybe sent all our jobs to China cause he has a Chinese wife is racism. Would it be racist if she was from India or any of the other countries the republicans have sent our jobs to? How bout Spain? Now the only saving factor in all of this is the statement that there were other comments apparently from one individual using the site to post this crap and guess what guys the person may have been a republican using the site to slam them. You never know however the site has issued a disclaimer and moved on. The do need better security but I do know right wingers do join democratic sites and try to sound like a democrat so they can in the end slam Democrats. This sound like a setup to get some sympathy for Mitch since he is falling in the polls in his home state. Are ther racists in the democratic party...YES but unlike the Republicans their voice is minor as opposed to being in the leadership in the republican side with their southern strategy. The KKK and the Arian idiots have for the last 20 some years always endorsed the Republicans Nuff said

O ya conservatives??? I can very easily recall you relishing in the fact that michelle obama was called a fat butt by a douche high school teacher a couple of weeks ago? Hypocrites much? As for this, she is def an open target politically since she herself was in the politics arena. The outsourcing to china was meant to convey her terribly right leanings economically as many conservatives oddly enough LOVE communism since it means cheap labor, huge markup, and huge profits at the expense of the consumer and the worker. Ahhh good ole capitalism.

Just another Republican Do as I say, Not as I do!

I think its funny I was watching FOX news and last weeks NASCAR already has people suing for damages.

What ever happened to the Republican proverb lawyers were the scum of the earth?

Just goes to show ya" when the shoe is on the other foot!

Unlike the dirt bag Republicans that just love to trash talk President and Mrs Obama, I think it's unacceptable to attack Mrs McConnell for any reason. If anything we should all feel sorry for her for being married to such a world class A**Hole.

mitch takes everyting ...the wong way...

That was really un-cool too attack Mitch's wife, people need to think before they speak, once those words leave your lips there is no way to take them back ..... And that is aimed at both sides.

Race should never be brought up, just wish he would show the same outrage when its done by his party against our president.

Twitter is the stupidest thing on the planet for PR.... there is literally no upside to freaking tweeting .... and you hear far more often about people who serious damage themselves or others doing it...

and, oh yeah, it is a racial slight... and those who can't see that reveal themselves to be racist also

There are racists in every facet of American society, but until you experience it first hand, it doesn't mean anything to you, hence it's seen as something that's totally blown out of proportion. Being from Kentucky, I'm sure McConnell has experienced it from all sides and although I'm not condoning racism or racist remarks, for this fool to just sit back and say nothing when prominent and not-so prominent members of his own party say dumb @!$%# about Michelle Obama, speaks volumes about his character. As long as it's not happening to you or your spouse, it's nothing wrong with it right? Incredible! Furthermore, I don't see what the big deal is about the twitter comment, although I can see how someone could make the inference that it was racist, but at least the Progressive group had the wherewithal to make an apology, unlike most Neo-Con groups when they transmit something stupid. Now the comment by Nikki Patton....that was a little racist! Funny as all hell in a comedic sort of way, but racist nonetheless.

Dear lord... Now even Liberals are trying to emulate Rush Limbaugh. He must be a very wise, powerful man to have already gotten so many conservatives thinking, acting and talking like him. And now, even many of the diametrically opposed (you thought) on the other end of the spectrum are trying to act just like him, too.

Tongue in cheek ^ Point is, there are always @!$%#s. Why are we letting the small minority of @!$%#s who probably posted anonymously when they did things like this constantly create and drive a new "national debate" or "national conversation". Every knows that the majority of left leaning people are not so naive and stupid as to believe economic factors like job outsources happen because of some politicians wife. (Although many businesses would love for you to believe so. They love when they can cut your paycheck and get you to believe that the government is responsible.... while countries with far higher tax burdens manage to grow businesses that pay a living wage juuuust fine).

But, there ya go. Makes it easy to dehumanize the other side. @!$%#s are @!$%#s, whether "liberal", "conservative" christian, muslim, whatever. Stop being a tool and letting them paint your picture of the world for you.

If Mitch had a lilly white wife, then you neo-libs would be complaining that he hated all other races. Oh!, You already do. I am so glad you libs are around to police everyone on racism, hate, bigotry and stupidity, try policing yourself then come back and make some humane remarks. The sorry part of this story is some of you on the left don't have a problem with the tweet.

Pigatory, I have said during the elections that wives and families are off limits. They are not the ones who is going to be sitting in "The Chair" (thank you, Clint). No matter what the Party one is, there is always someone in a "group" somewhere, claiming to be representing the whole country (in their minds view) that steps over the line. You mentioned Liberals in you response but it comes from T-partiers and Conservatives and the list goes on. No one is immune to the type of childish assults from groupes. Have a good day Piggy

Ignorance always has and always will transcend everything but knowledge. I live in a very democratic state, MD, and used to work in one of the most liberal areas of my county. The parents from the school where I taught were all about social equality and rage against the machine until it came to putting black and hispanic kids in the same classes; then the ignorance came out.

I now work in a more conservative (though overall liberal) part of the county and we've just finished combining students of all ability levels into the same classrooms (which meant a greater mixing of races in general as well). At the start, a few parents wanted to ensure their children would still be challenged. Since they saw that they were, we haven't hear boo about it since.

Like many other attributes, the majority of mainstream thinkers want to pin "racist" on one political party and things like "welfare queen" on another when the fact is the terms can apply to people across the political spectrum. As with most things, the situation is more complicated than that and there is far more gray than there is black and white. It's only people like Mitch and his counterparts on the other side of the aisle who want you to believe the lines are so clearly drawn, and that is why the most loyal of their flock do so accordingly.

This is hilarious....These liberal posters blaming the victim of racism. It's ok to be racist as long as it's a Republican you are racist against.

Democrats....The party of tolerance....HA HA HA HA HA....

These posters have no right to whine about anything anyone says about Obama or Michelle. Besides, wasn't it Biden who said Obama was "Clean and can speak"? And, he's your own VP. Liberals are more racist than anyone.

How many slugs does it take to make-up the Democrat Party? All of them.

This comes off as the usual over-staged hypocrisy of right wing bigots. This "ultimate outrage" isn't even in the same league compared to the names people are openly and directly calling the First Lady. Take a stand against that and then I'll have some sympathy for your "ultimate" exaggeration.

Dear Mitch, oh please enlighten me as too where Americans can go who are oppressed by the Republican Party? My local and state governments have been infiltrated by radical ideologists who wish to push their religious agenda on me. So where can I go, to escape?

I don't believe Ashley Judd meets the residency requirements.

Sue, families are off limits. They kindly deal with the knuckledraggers who refer to the First Lady as "Moochelle" and have more vile things to say about their daughters.

If that was the only tweet, it's a bit of a stretch to call that a racial slur. Families should be off the table, unless they are directly involved in the issue at hand. (such as Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia, who was hired by the Bush transition team when Clarence decided to not count Florida votes.)

Mitch is a drama turtle.

Bye bye Ashley! LMFAO! Your political career will be about as good as your worthless "acting" career. LOL! If it wasn't for your fat momma and sister, you would not even had that lackluster hollywood career. You even turned you hubby gay. He was kicked out of NASCAR a few years ago because he tried to blow one of the good ole boy drivers. LMFAO!

Liberals. God love em! LOL!

There were no racial what ever one calls it nor any malice aforethought, everything is so conveniently misconstrued. This country is so mired in political correctness and human rights it has become a society of institutionalized hypocrisy watched over by speech Gestapo and though controlling Commissars and Imams.

I haven't forgotten his failed pledge

This one?

“today I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we’ve long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay — and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.”

-Barak Hussein Obama

I think she must be a viable candidate for office ...otherwise this discussion of her running would have been put to an end by Mitch McConnell. He would have closed it down by showing she is not a viable contender for his office because she doesn't meet residency requirements. But he hasn't done that. What people may not know is that Ashley Judd is a college graduate who excelled in college. She is a very smart woman.

In the event that someone should leave the comfort of their couch, there's little more to be said about Chinese people who LEFT China when the People's Revolution took place. In fact these same Ex-Pat Chinese took everything from the Emporer's Palace EXCEPT the throne itself. You see, these are the ORIGINAL, before Communism Chinese people that left the mainland to settle on the Western parts of what we now call TAIWAN.

Taiwan, itself is very progressive. But we should NOT forget the Native Peoples who were fierce warriors, no less dedicated to their lands and traditions than the Samurai of the Japanese who tried to occupy this island (formally known as Formosa) by force.

I had never been there until this last year and was greeted with English (which many of their children learn in schools... asking our children to learn Chinese would be interesting, yes? or even a Native language of our ancestors (Irish, Danish, German, French, Penaobscot, Cherokee... how about YOU)).

I have had family history kept in the SILENT bucket for too long, not knowing.

As for race, gender, etc. biases, I would agree with whoever says whatever that you can enjoy YOUR Life however you want to. But, to bully, shame, degrade or otherwise mock someone based ONLY on your ignorance, it's time to stop you and your kind from thinking that you have control over other peoples lives. We are a Nation of Peoples and we are learning that our own Melting is small in relation to some of the Empires that have existed on this Planet. We have witnessed shortages of food, sunlight, water, clean air in our own part of the planet. Many of these Empires grew large and strong, but like all Empiric Social structures, Power, Wealth and Health come at a cost. We're talking about "jobs"?? The Urban myth grew out of the generosity of Henry Ford and a model that was built on "everyone" sharing in the Wealth. It's been real interesting watching the Democrats become more Republican and what used to be the People's party (Republican) become more Conservative and near Fascist (believe like I do "or else").

Stop the gibberish,

Find out who you are YOURself,

Become part of THAT community and see how your Life changes,

Mountain people, Lowlanders, Prairie people, Coastal people, Desert people all have a commonality that they can share so no one goes hungry, without shelter or creative means to express themselves.

Do NOT define other people based on what YOU or I believe. This world has had enough Fascists to know better. We have a lot of problems to solve with our growing populations and seemingly changing climates (regardless of source or reason). IF you need to be a predator on other peoples lives, remember that someday, you'll be served in kind.

Bless the planet with your Life !!

capitalists moving their businesses to foreign countries, not only to china, escaping obama's wrath of robbing their hard earned monies through hefty taxations to finance his welfare programs. so what is the next ethnic slurs, is it going to be india, bangladesh, cambodia, etc.

Penalty Flag, BS, 50 yards, republican offence.

Lets think this through. I don't know a single liberal in real life who blames immigrants for outsourcing. BUT i KNOW PLENTY OF REPUBLICANS WHO DO. Kentucky is a RED STATE. The irony is that most republican i know in real life think that way.

TAKE NOTICE: they don't give a name to this "LIBERAL" group in the article. Did i miss it? This has Karl rove mentality written all over it. The republican is trying to be the inclusive guy and calls the Dems racist.

Kentucky Press? who the heck are they, A tweet? I find it hard to beleive there is any Media in Kentucky that is liberal. So next time you tell me MSN is liberal, excuse me if I laugh in your face.

The sick thing is that Karl rove tactics have worked in the past.

The true party of racism,showing it's colors,wake up people. these democrats you believe are out to help you are the elites you cry about holding the poor down,the party of lies and racism.

Excellent point Bambi: You CAN take that two ways. it would be very logical that they blame her because she was SECRETARY OF LABOR, and not because of her origin. For those of you too republican to think, the key here is SECRETARY OF LABOR,. The Job of SECRETARY OF LABOR is what? Jobs? lol

Did they ask the people who made the comment what they meant by that? i don't think so. Thank you Bambi, at least somebody is thinking.

David"Oh...I used to be a democrat".....aaaahahahahahaha....sure buddy...nice try....and I used to be a republicon too! We believe it. Bashing Romney and his tax problem?......Oh...so now he did not have a tax problem?...aaaahahahahahahahaha....too funny....you're killing us....aaahahahahahaha. Bashing Ann.....?....aaaahahahahahaha.....after all the Hilary bashing, After all the Michelle racist bashing.......and then you think Queen Ann was not deserving of a good laugh at with her comments and her fake shopping at Costco trying to look like a common person?...Gazillionaires shopping at Costco...aaahahahahahahah...Aaahahahahahahhahaha....good one! McConnel trying to divert his problem of his pledge.....his only job is to take down the President.....Pledging against America to take down our President......TREASON!

If it were Republicans making slurs against an Asian woman the Liberals would be all over them.

I guess it's another case of: Don't do as I do, do as I say.

Are people actually talking against the first female Asian American Labor Secretary? That is worse then talking against the first male African American President, is it not?

It is to bad that we cannot disagree with the policies and actions of a President of the United States or the Secretary of Labor without being called racist by others, but if it is the case that everyone who disagrees with President Obama policies (e.g. Senator Mich McConnell) are racist, it should also be the case that anyone that talks against Secretary Chao would be racist, should it not?

The reason it's a "racial slur", George Pauljohn, is because she is from Taiwan, not China. If you knew anything about anything, you'd know that the people of Taiwan don't consider themselves to be "Chinese" but a sovereign country unto themselves. China has a problem with this...thus, the oppression from which her family fled.

Stup!d liberal. As the Secretary of Labor, she had NO role in crafting legislation nor establishing Administration policy regarding off-shoring jobs to China. She was responsible for IMPLEMENTING laws created by other people and/or policies of the President...not creating her own policies to ship jobs to China.

If you stup!d f'cks would learn how the government operates, you'd do much less damage.

So, one yahoo twit tweets something that is over the line and every RWNJ wants to paint ALL liberals as racist. Maybe it was James O'Keefe infiltrating the liberal organization using an alias and departing after the damage was done.

And all those racist Democrats that people cite in these threads. Well, their progeny are all Republicans now!!

it's tacky and distasteful to go after an elected official's family. Having said that, how many of the neocons who are outraged over this show the same level of moral indignation over the almost daily attacks on Michele Obama? True liberals/progressives are far more like to condemn this sort of thing rather than applaud it, yet the neocons rarely speak out against this type of stuff when it is directed at the other side

If, indeed this is a genuinely liberal/progressive group, their actions are just as wrong as the neocons who criticize the First Lady. It wouldn't be the first time a conservative person or group posing as liberals did something sh1tty.

http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=38133

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-09-14/story/republicans-masquerading-democrats-using-mailers-attack-democrats

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/02/wisconsin_police_chief_trouble.html

Actually STEAMIE, it was Hillary Clinton's people that started the birther thing.

East to west traveler...Keep traveling...right out of our country.....Republicons under McConnell blocked the bill to remove tax breaks for companies who take American jobs out of America on 7-19-12.

Republicons blocked the same bill that would have given tax breaks to companies that would bring American Jobs back to America on 7-19-12.

Welfare to the rich 1% like Romney and his offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes for yrears and years....and you whine about President Obama trying to keep a safety net under the people who were hurt during the recent depression caused by the GREEDY RICH????

Citi Banks has over 200 subsidiaries in the Caymen Islands just to avoid paying taxes.....they actually paid NO taxes and received billions back from the government while hiding profits in the Caymen Islands....Welfare?...YA WELFARE FOR THE GREEDY 1%......Get a clue east west traveler...or is it you are one of the 1% problem people who have no bounds for the need for greed?

Did my Conservative friends speaking out so strongly here in support of Senator McConnell speak out equally as strongly back in 2000 when the South Carolina GOP destroyed Senator McCain's campaign with their slanderous claim that Senator McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh was actually the illegitimage daughter of an interracial affair?

That said, please, leave Elaine Chao out of it...there are plenty of other reasons to oppose Senator McConnell's re-election.

Reilly said the volunteer who posted the comments no longer is affiliated with the group.

One volunteer who is no longer affiliated with the group (asked to leave, presumably) should not be a negative reflection on all progresses in the state of Kentucky.

Emotionally unstable, over-zealous volunteers do exist in all parties.

End of story.

Note to Woodward and McConnell, if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Henry-1014127, #1.8- Originally I came straight here from the headline to the comments section to just leave a comment, that being "I'm NOT going to get baited into another MISLEADING GOP PR SPIN and have any intelligence I have "dumbed down", "insulted" and deflected from anything "objective" to "GOP-SPIN-SUBJECTIVE"; especially when there's a coinciding headline of ['Rove: GOP needs diversity'] subliminally positioned right under this one."

You NAILED IT! This is nothing but more continuing BAIT for the GOP's captured-to-inflict "dumbed-down" intelligence that used to belong to America. (ooh.....it's almost "Sacrilege", coming on a Sunday morning and all, too:)

McConnell Passed up everything American made, Kentucky Pork for Chop Me Chop-Chop Monkey Stew !!!

Wow what luck right when Mitch was getting some competition from a well known person for his seat that he has to defend a citizen in an open forume on a left wing web site makes what some call a racial slur against his chinese wife by calling her Chinese? GMAB. We all know how the right plants garbage and lies on the internet so move on unless you can prove a lefty posted this and even then calling a Chinese person Chinese is not a racial slur idiots.

Correct response: "I've asked her and since she didn't personally send any over there she has no idea".

In 2001, former state Democratic Party chairwoman Nikki Patton apologized for saying that McConnell "passed up some good Kentucky pork to chow down at the Chinese money buffet."

LOLOLOL!!!!

Ok, now that I got that out of my system, I do believe it's wrong to attack his spouse. Though I'm sure his vow to make Obama a one term president wasn't racially motivated at all. Anyway, Mitch is a complete douche, IMO. He was so determined to get Obama out of office that he would've let the country go down with him if that's what it took. Well, guess what Mitch, he'll be out of office in less than 4 years and I hope you're out of office even sooner!

Does McConnell's wife have a Birth Certificate ???

I agree this smells like the right wings creation where they log on as a member of a group only to toss out crap to make the group look bad. Check the headline it tells the story. They will not get away.....etc. Who is they. It states one person posted the crap which as far as I can see has no racial slur in it at all. It is not proper to slur anyone as we progressives believe but MRs Mitch was the secretary of labor at one time when it was possible for jobs to be sent overseas. It is possible that her non protection of American jobs riled this person and not her nationality. All in all it came just at the right time for Mitch who is in a downward spiral going into the nexr election and needed something to make him more human.

What goes around, comes around Mitch!

Everything the McConnell's own is made in Asian, so much for the love of America !!!

She did send jobs to China while she was secretary of labor. She has his ear. No racial slur. Truth.

And here I thought only republicans were racist. Looks like jackassery knows know political boundaries.

The elitist pig prima dona Beotch McConnell and his money grabbin' snatch can both take a trip China by way of the Mariana Trench. I don't care if the Satan sperm receiver is from Mars. Just another Imelda Marcos wanna be. No different than all the Republicrats and Demolicans that bought and cheated their way into high office, they take the people's money and invest in into the military industrial complex. They bow to the international Private banksters that rule the planet with their ZioNazi FIAT monetary system monopoly. Oh poor Beotch and ol'ady Chaos just wait 'till the 99% really wake up, the guillotines await. The new left is not into torture, water boarding, cigarette burning flesh and all the nasty sheite stuff McConnell and the Bushwhackers love, just send them off to hell ASAP!

Both sides need to leave the families of politicians out of their causes. No wonder we cannot get good, qualified individuals to run for office. Its ridiculous and out of hand!

This is nothing new about the McConnell's shipping good American jobs to Asia, that's very Oriental of them !!!

Remember racial slurs are OK at MS/NBC when thrown at anyone from the right.

The liberal group clearly acted in a deplorable manner.

And, seriously, why would you need to bash McConnell's wife, when there's so much one can legitimately bash the senator himself for?

poor Mcconnell....thank goodness he's using his wife as a front. He would really have a problem if his wife told the truth about his sexual preference. I am surprised him and Lindsay have not come out of the closet.

And we're running Ashley Judd against him? Seriously?

China was only missing two things from becoming the most powerful nation on earth. Technology and jobs. We gave them both...... while they had nuclear tipped missiles pointed at us.

Who's submarine pulled up next to Los Angeles and shot off a missile? Wake up America, you've been had and your politicians have committed treason in their brain dead quest for globalism.

Typical of the liberal cowards, they like to be the ones claiming racism at every corner then go out and attack someone, chickenshhhhheeeets.

It looks the "Progressive Liberals" had a tough week in displaying their hypocrisy. I have begun to question their professed level of superior intelligence and education. It seems their arrogance has brought them down to the same level as the rest of us. Nice job on being so "progressive". LOL

hey, stopfreeloaders, I don't think anyone has ever claimed that no democrats are racist. The difference is that the leaders of the Democratic Party, and those that lean Democrat, thoroughly denounced and fired this single racist. Republicans never do that because they know that racists are a large part of their base and they won't risk offending their racist base.

Nothing new here folks.....

Progressives use this "attack" agenda ALL THE TIME everywhere. It is a "prominent" fixture on Newsvine.

And exactly when did the republicrap smear machine NOT ATTACK DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES SPOUSES? Every day some sleeze ball republicrap has something to say about Ms Obama, from her hair to her shoes NOTHING IS "OFF LIMITS" WITH THESE CLOWNS. It looks like Mr McConnell has his dander up, this will NOT be the last attack on his "wife", and he will have to explain why he has been so energetic in allowing corporations to escape taxation after sending our jobs overseas. It is bad enough to have the Chinese STEAL everything we design or patent but to allow it for so long is the mark of a traitor. McConnell is in his last throws of power, he will have to atone for his sins against this country. Just like justice Thomas, Mr McConnell has a wife very highly placed in the teabag movement with very large Bank accounts from the most evil people in this country, IT WILL BE BROUGHT TO LIGHT VERY SOON.

Now I know why all our jobs are going to Asia helping them to build the Chinese military, its been the McConnell's all the time, this is starting to look like Treason !!!

This is so nice of them selling our Country out, you really have to wonder about these two ???

difference between liberals and conservatives when a racist gaffe takes place:

liberals: fire the person and issue two sincere apologies.

conservatives: snicker and complain about political correctness.

Where's all the conservatives standing up against political correctness now? Oh wait, when someone says something truly offensive, it's wrong. "PC" is another accusation that Republicans like to tote around, but only when it serves their purposes.

Pigotry!! I agree with you! (I know, I'm surprised too!)

Pland,

You do your liberal party proud!! It's constant examples from people like you that show why America loathes liberal Democrats... Keep up with your "enlightening" posts...they show how much of a low life you are...

Wouldn't be amazing if indeed his wife did have significant investments in Chinese companies who prospered immensely from American jobs being shipped there and had numerous friends and relatives that profited as well? Then we could take that racist bigot McConnel to primary with Ms Judd and retire his mushed-mouth lying behind like the rest of the anti-American Republicans who are wrecking our recovering economy.

"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!"

A comment about the Sec. of Labor, during the Bush fiasco, who happens to be the turtle's wife.... Gimme a break!

JK1963

"show why America loathes liberal Democrats... Keep up with your "enlightening

Since the Democratic Party is a centrist party, only considered 'liberal' by a GOP/TeaParty base that is so far right that they elect people like Rand Paul who believe in seperate water fountains and bathrooms for black people, and let that racist serve as their national representative to reply the the black President's State Of The Union speech, your comment seems to be grounded in fantasy-land ideas. Of course, if you're trying to imply that americans loathe people such as President Barack Obama, the fantasy-land nature of your comment is clearly illustrated by the fact the Americans voted for this gentleman twice, and by polling that clearly indicates that Americans favor him while viewing republicans in congress unfavorably by a FAR margin. Maybe you thought this was the FAUX News website?- your comment would make perfect sense in that fantasy-land of hate and bigotry.

big al of vegas...

trash talk in politics is older than the combined ages of any 50 posters here today. As for trash talking michelle that is dependent on whether it is supporting her man or pushing a political agenda.

Like bush2 mentioned in his last interview ( ?) trash talk me all you want (its a part of politics) Trash talk my wife, look out! (paraphrased)

tracontech...

Nice to see that you so enjoy running off at the mouth before engaging your brain. The article clearly says that she is from Taiwan, not mainland China. One other thing, taiwan and china can hardly be called best of friends.

Where's the "slur and attack"?

East to West Traveler (1.59):

How stupid can you get??? You must have been a Rip Van Winkle (mental) twin from 2000-2008. Bush & Co. are the ones who sent our jobs overseas--and their buddy CEO's and filthy rich. THAT'S why this country is in the financial mess it's in.

Robert warner...

Got the links proving the inane points you are trying to make in 1.104? I would hardly call either party centrists, but I would say that the liberal/progressives are about as far left as the tea party is to the right.

As an Ind lib, I would not be surprised to find this rubbish started by RW neocons to curry sympathy for their wing nut. If indeed it was the Lib-Dems , understand two wrongs might get a spineless Right re- elected.

AS an Ind lib my vote goes to Ashley. She has got the Repubs running scared, already THEIR mudslinging has started..

OK, I'm waiting......to hear the outcry of "racism" from all of the usual suspects....the media, the ACLU, Jesse & Al, the Whitehouse, the Hollywood degenerates......you know, the outrage, demands for somebody's resignation. Oh wait, this came from a liberal group, so I guess I'll be waiting a long time, huh? .....'cause when a liberal does it, the mantra becomes "oh, well that's different"!

Links?? In this context, that's a little silly. But just two things of so many, here's a few points;

Right = spending cuts and no tax increases, Obama= 3 dollars spending cuts for every 1 dollar in tax increases. Republicans killed this "grand bargain".

Right = no gun regulations, Obama = honor the 2nd Amendment, but do background checks on all who buy guns. Republicans are killing this very popular idea.

The centrist Democratic Party would pass these two ideas. The extreme right wing Republican?TeaParty will not.

Spider, you need to read more carefully (If you cut some eyeholes in the tinfoil hat, it'll make it a little easier.). First off, if the people you mentioned above replied to every racist with a blog, they would have time to do nothing else- this was not a party leader that posted this, but just a blogger for a very minor political activist group. Second, the blogger was immediately condemned, denounced, fired and had his racism deleted. If republicans acted this way, maybe they would have gotten a few more votes last election. You see, smokescreens like yours aside, America knows who the racists vote for- the Republican Party.

Forgot about the part abour Rand Paul and the whites-only lunch counters. Here ya go;

The leftists always....always...are the most insensitive in their vitriolic personality attacks, from their Hollywood type benefactors to the internet crumb bums that populate this site...thats for sure!

Are you kidding? While as a life-long liberal I found this offensive, it does not BEGIN to approach the vitriol of the right, including portrayals of the Obama's as pimp & whore, witch doctor, and terrorist sympathizers. And that's just the Obama's.

The leftists always....always...are the most insensitive in their vitriolic personality attacks,

Keep telling yourself that. BTW did you guys read any of the comments after the FLOTUS appeared on the Oscars?

Never have I seen such a bunch of hypocritical crybabies!!

Clearly a low percentage of liberals are racist. However, a HIGH percentage of liberals would sacrifice their values (e.g., racial equality) when it suits them and their political agenda. These people know nothing other than to place politics ahead of country, which is why facts are lost on today's liberals - If a fact doesn't suit their extremist rhetoric, they simply ignore the fact (or deny it because it didn't come directly from Georgo Soros' mouth).

Actually, I find this interesting..this senator is complaining about comments made about his family...yet said nothing about comments said by other republicans about our president...or his family. Why is one good and the other bad ? It is just the way of politics..politicans use wahtever as long as it is not used against them personally. And either way it is wrong of anyone to do so. Or any party..group...whatever or whoever.

The woman looks right well. Mitch, on the other hand, umm, ah, not so good. Wonder how many businesses Mitch had to give the Taiwanese for her? I'll bet it was whatever they agreed to plus one. Taiwanese ain't no fools. They had to have something extra for that lower lip Mitch sports. Poor woman! She can only kiss ole Mitch one lip at a time!

Actually, Obama is sinking in the polls. Survey conducted just last Friday showed Obama has slipped from a 51% farvorable rating to 47%. Not looking too good for Team Obama. It seems that the American people have decided that he should be sharing in the blame for the sequester. It's to see people realizing that you can't tax your way out of sinkhole.

Robert,

I see that you implicating are defending the poster that hurled insults. And as to your alleged "claims", a few citations might be in order. And hardly your Democrats are centrists. They are as extreme as the Tea Party. It's blind adherence to your liberal mantra and absorbing and regurgitating the latest talking points from Huff Post and other left wing media outlets show allows you to approve of such a vile posters comment.

Jean123,

More nonsense from the left again. You lefty's like to point to these evil rich people, but you never given any names and any links to prove that relocating jobs overseas (it's called lowering the cost of labor) directly lined the pockets of any executive. And just so you know, most of the Democrats in Congress are multi-millionaires.

The only real poll that counts is the one last Nov, and the one in 2014 when republicans are stripped of all power in the house and become a minority party. America don't need people like you, JK. Face up to the fact you are wrong and will always be wrong as long as you are a bigot.

Starsailing, look up the origins of the so called "Birther Movement". Aw heck I'll just save you the trouble, it would be none other than your darling Hilary Clinton. This is well documented from her primary battle with Odumbo. Ouch!

GOVT. troll...

CreepingBuffaloPoop,

You are an idiot! Your type of ignorance is a dying breed in America. Pissed off because you keep backing a dead horse who keeps losing and too stupid to check its pulse. Please suck on my libtard a$$!

Steamless,

You are the idiot, you and your ilk think you can get away with anything because you are educated and brain washed by the left-wing education system, I say educated but that is really reaching for something that is not there.

Pigatory, Tiawan has been given back to China some years back. Even though China handle Taiwan differently than the Homeland doesn't mean that it won't clamp down stringently in a Heartbeat. The way that Taiwan is handle is hard to beleive that it's Chinas.

Tiawan has been given back to China some years back.

That is Hong Kong. Can you really be that ignorant?

PIGOTRY? where they blaming her because she is Asian? or because she was "SECRETARY OF LABOR"?

THINK THINK THINK. nobody even asked the person who said that. AND THEY WONT.

Kentucky Progress? Must be that hate group of black savages!!!! They must still be pi#*ed off because their leader Jesse Jr. & his crack smoking wife got caught!

This has to be a put on.

Typical Pigface response.

McConnell's office is very Oriental, what is in this mans mind ?

Yes she is made in tiawan bu you are only Tiwanese if you are born there from parents who are both tiwanese she is considered Chinese cause her parents are. All the same all Tiwanese are still actually Chinese cause China still owns the Island they are living on Btw there is no slur here as she was the Sec of labor while jobs were being sent to China this is a big feel sorry for me from Mitch cause he is not looking good for reelection and this may be a plant to dhore him up by right wing dirty tricksters Too much is being taken out of too little

Jan...

What is your point? It seems that you no sense of art or ethnic appreciation. How sad for such narrow mindedness.

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Giantego...

So you think mainland china has the right to lay claim to taiwan? Interesting on how the UN doesn't recognize that right. Could you point us to Taiwanize law that says that one born in taiwan has to take on the citizenship of their parents birthplace?

george pauljohn

PIGOTRY? where they blaming her because she is Asian? or because she was "SECRETARY OF LABOR"?

THINK THINK THINK. nobody even asked the person who said that. AND THEY WONT.

Maybe you should "think think think" a bit before posting your idiocy...

The Secretary of Labor doesn't "ship jobs overseas"; the Secretary of Labor implements laws enacted by Congress or policies enacted by the President...the Secretary of Labor does NOTHING to establish laws nor policy on his/her own. Further, the Secretary of Labor is a political appointee of the President, put in place to carry out the President's policies...not their own.

The Secretary of Labor isn't an elected official which would seek office to gain personally from kickbacks or other gratuities from lobbyists, corporations, foreign governments, etc.

Get a clue, pal....you are embarrassing yourself.

Can you argue the merits, or only offer personal attacks?

The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born in Taipei, Taiwan, to Ruth Mulan Chu Chao (趙朱木蘭 Zhào Zhū Mùlán), a historian, and Dr. James S.C. Chao (趙錫成博士 Zhào Xīchéng), who began his career as a merchant mariner and later, after getting established in New York, built a successful shipping company (Foremost Shipping Co.).^[5] Elaine Chao’s parents had fled to Taiwan from mainland China after the Chinese Communists took over after the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Chao attended Taipei’s Tsai Hsing Elementary School in kindergarten and first grade. Chao, her mother and two younger sisters came to the U.S. aboard a freight ship in 1961, when she was eight years old. Her father had arrived in New York three years earlier after receiving a scholarship. It took three years for her father to save enough money to pay for his family’s passage from Taiwan and for visas to be obtained for them.

You would think he would look at immigration differently.

You're mixing up immigration with ILLEGAL immigration.

The Chao family obtained Visas. Legal immigration is something McConnell supports.

They did not SNEAK in, jump a fence or hop a border.

There's a BIG difference. Get it straight.

actually no. There is No Difference at all. They weren't being "persecuted", it doesn't say that Dad Chao got here as the result of something legal. He got a scholarship, he should've gotten his degree and gone back to Taiwan. Then emigrated after He went back and went through the proper channels.

He's a hypocrite and so are you. McConnell only "supports" things that enrich him personally, he doesn't know or care about immigration or anything else that might actually benefit his constituents.

lol @Bbaker yeah it is different they went by legal channels dumbass. also you say they werent "persecuted". Hmmm well i guess escaping the Chinese communists wasnt persecution but rather self preservation....Obviously you just skimmed thru that part or didnt want to acknowledge it.

I travelled back to the USA with my Thai wife a few years back. I obtained a US Visa for her after being married to her for 4+years. It required over a year and thousands of USD, for the US Fees & Lawyer cost...

I was amazed at the OPEN Bigotry exhibited by the average US Citizen, toward my wife...

Needless to say, I will never expose her or our children to the USA, again...

I'm sorry you had to deal with that. It is true some only see racist as being toward African American and everything else is ok. I don't see it that way. I respect people for their actions and manners relate to who I am and not who they are. Even if a person can not understand what your saying they can tell if you have good manners. Your manners when dealing with another person shows people who you really are.

Illegals- persons who come to America on Visas and never return to thier country...40% of illegals and you people still talk about borders...How about tracking some of those Visas!!!

just judy,

So 40%?? That leaves the remaining 60% crossing the borders illegally.

People's personal preferences very often influence their political decisions. He has a clear preference for Asia and not for America because he chose to marry someone from Asia, who most certainly has a lot of influence on him. I don't believe for a second that he has the US's best interests in mind. He prefers Asia.

They did not SNEAK in, jump a fence or hop a border.

There's a BIG difference. Get it straight.

You need to get it straight. Immigration laws need to be changed so people do not have to do that sort of thing thats what the thing is all about not the fact they did come that way. Plus they came cause business wanted them here and Mitch supports no action cause business owns him and the Republicans. They do not want amnesty cause then they would have to pay them a fair wage and lose the fact they can do anything against them they want cause they fear the ins. Once again proff that republicans do not know how to solve problems cause they do not know what the problem is or they are paid to look the other way with large donations that get them elected.

I don't see how that would be the case. His wife came to America and achieved her dream as an American. Couldn't we say the same about most early Americans? Her Dad left China because he didn't agree with the system there. Would that be the same as saying Obama because of his father really backs Kenya? I don't think he backs Kenya over us. I just think he is not doing what is good for us.

So, if someone come to US or any country, then won't leave even if their VISA is expired, that still legal? Because that is happened to lots of people who came to the US before.

Breadex nailed it, and once again the gray wins in favor of the black and white. If any really believe that most of the GOP wants to end illegal immigration, you have no grasp of the complexity of the situation. Why do you think it is taking so long for the GOP to strike a deal with a willing President who has deported more illegal immigrants than his past three Republican predecessors?

Because it is a balancing act. While the GOP does not want just anyone coming to the US illegally and using social services, they also do not want an end to illegal immigrants because as Breadex said, illegal immigrants are unequivocally and inarguably an integral component of the American workforce and there are GOP business owners (and Dems) who rake in piles more cash by exploiting their unregulated work.

@ Kate

That is by far the most stupid racist comment I've read on here in sometime. Where in the hell are the brain police?

Why insult McConnell's wife when it's so much more fun to insult the mortician, himself?

Was the comment about her origin, or ABOUT HER POSITION AS LABOR SECRETARY? DEE DEEE DEEE

Look what our salt & pepper President married?

Bored...

LMAO! Assuming that your mini biography is true, I would say that senator mcConnel's views on immigration policy is very correct.

Seems her dad immigrated per U.S. Immigration rules and again followed immigration rules to have his wife and children immigrate to the U.S.

BTW - My father and my uncles also followed our countries immigration rules as well. Heck, when he arrived in the states he couldn't even speak english, he learned on the fly.

Makes one wonder why the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.A. refused to do the same.

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Lee, I have no problem with whom obama married, just wish that he would have listened more to what she and others told him.

Of course you would so called american-2051577, you are but a republican shill after all. LMAO!

Wonder why Elaine Chao who's family reportedly "fled" communist China was able to enroll in the top school in Taipei? How Her father actually received this "scholarship"? How her father was actually able to start his lucrative maritime business importing from communist China?

Here is a clue, Her father was BFF with communist China's president Chiang and actually attended college together.

Imagine the BFF of the communist president of China immigrating to America, after fleeing the communists, able to found a lucrative shipping empire (he's the guy who bring in all the crap to Wal Mart) shipping items from these same horrible communists to America, installing his daughter as labor secretary who designs methods to ship American jobs to communist China.

No you don't have to imagine, its fact. Racism, nice red herring Mitch.

And you say he followed the rules? So Mitch's immigration policy is better get to know a world leader who wants to destroy America, that's your path to citizenship illegals.

Traiterous.

Once again, the so-called "tolerant" left shows their own hypocrisy. It's do as I say, not as I do with them. If a republican group had made these comments about a democrat's wife the whole left would have been OUTRAGED. But, now, even in the face of this, many of the trolls are deflecting and denying. JERKS AND CLOSET RASCISTS!

Name examples of when "members of his own party did the same exact thing".

You're kidding, right? Where have you been for the last four years?

C'mon Arthur. We all forget about all this Obama is a monkey garbage that was going around. Or President Obama with a bone through his nose. That did not come from Republicans? If you think that was inappropriate then clean up your own pig pen. They walk like you, they stink like you, and they oink like you.

Here you go Art, took me all of 10 seconds to find this-

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/04/15/orange-county-republican-party-member-circulates-racist-e-mail-targeted-at-president-obama/

Where is Mitch on this one? Conspicuously quiet.

Or this- http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/09/25/we_play_barack_the_magic_negro_in_honor_of_ann_coulter_s_new_book

The view would be better if you quit staring at your prostate.

It was Pres. Bush they put the monkey face on first, and Theodore Roosevelt they pictured with a bone in his nose first. Political cartoons has always been around, but only the most rude and racist that has anything like that for wifes and children.

Art, What office did Progress Kentucky hold?

Arthur66

So, in a country of 315 million people, all you could find was some random local politican that nobody's heard of, and a radio host.

So your saying that Kentucky Progress are not some random local politics types? I never heard of them before this story. Has anyone outside of Kentucky heard of them? Probably not.

But if you are trying to paint some picture that Mitch and his Republican cohorts are innocent victims here, you will need a lot of paint. I agree this group should never have brought McConnel's spouse in to things and certainly not in such a racially insensitive manner. But let's not play stupid games, Republicans have been making these sorts of racially insensitive comments for at least four years, about Obama and his wife, without so much as a peep from any Republican in power about it being wrong.

And there is the difference between the 2 sides arthur thank you for pointing it out. When some nothing Dems say something out of line, the whole party says they were wrong. When someone in the republican party says something like that, the Repubs say "well he was not anyone significant"

I'm thinking Arthur was smoking the dope when it came time to pay attention in social studies class.

Arthur the defender of the guys running around with their eyes closed and their hands over their ears.

By the way Arthur, what's the newest news on Benghazi?

Wow all of the are doing it both sides and teh sad part is we the people who get screwed by both side are arguingh this. this is why I am in independant and refuse to be in the 2 party system!

Michelle Obama comes to mind.

Umm Michael, as an independent, your logic is really faulty. Who in here had ever heard of this Kentucky group prior to this story? I'm willing to bet none except maybe its members or those who are entrenched in politics in Kentucky. Who has heard of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter? Fact of the matter is, some nobody blogger made an ignorant comment, and the nobody group affiliated with said person apologized and severed ties.

But somehow, this is more egregious than anything Rush Limbaugh, a known face of the Republican party for over 20 years, has said or done in relation to Obama? Somehow getting mad that no one criticizes Rush and not getting mad enough when someone no one knows says something and is immediately cut-off from the organization he worked for?

Artie says:

I'm not kidding, and I've lived in the same house (BUBBLE) and city for the last four years.

Arthur 66: That "radio host" connects with millions of people. So he does have a little more clout than you want us to believe. Also...

John McCain gets into hot water over a tweet with a fellow RepublicanRep. Justin Amash (R-MI) on Monday swiftly denounced Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for a joke about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the former Republican presidential nominee made on Twitter.

After McCain faced accusations of racism for a tweet in which he alluded to Ahmadinejad as a monkey ..

South Carolina’s Todd Kincannon, who served as the executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party between 2004 and 2010, tweeted: “Hey what’s the difference between Trayvon Martin and a dead baby?..”

Its too funny watching all the liberal trash circling the wagons on this one, face it, most liberals are stone throwing little wimps hiding in the dark fringes.

Arthur666, please give examples oh when water has been wet.

stopfreeloaders says "Its too funny watching all the liberal trash circling the wagons on this one, face it, most liberals are stone throwing little wimps hiding in the dark fringes."

stopfreeloaders is a proven liar. This is the same poster that I caught in a long, lying post. He posted that President Obama didn't win any state where there was a voter ID law, whereas I pointed out his lie by showing that Ohio, which has a voter ID law, voted for Obama (I imagine there were others as well, I just didn't feel like wasting any more time on his lies). Republicans and TeaPartyers here might want to realize that a VERY big reason that Mitt Romney lost in Ohio is because, just before election day, he lied repeatedly about Jeep, saying that they were going to move american jobs to China. Reailze, TeaParty, that we're onto your tactic of lying. If we catch you once, as with Stopfreeloaders, your credibilty is completely destroyed.

Oh how quickly the left tries to attack arthur.

Seems that the links all refer to obama himself and history is full of political slurs towards candidates, regardless of party

She was the worst secretary of Labor we ever had in fact she made a tour telling business how to avoid paying overtime etc. You could attack her on her merits not on this kind of idiocy which I still believe is a dirty trick and not from a Democrat.

WAS THE COMMENT ABOUT HER ORIGIN? or about her deeds as LABOR SECRETARY? THINK THINK THINK.

dee dee dee

After this I think he will try to get business'es to send as many jobs to China as he can. Dirty rotten Americans. Right Mitch?

Being from the Arizona mountains myself I can only imagine that your one of few liberal loons to reside there.

Being from the Arizona

That explains a lot.

I think Ashley Judd is a very good actress and an extremely beautiful woman. HOWEVER, what in the hello qualifies her to be in the Congress? Yeah, I know you will say what qualifies McConnell then. Well, he sure didn't get voted in because he was handsome. This is politics today, stupid uninformed people voting for someone who in many cases they wouldn't know if they saw them on the street, or know what they are for or against. They simply voted for them because they had name recognition or a handsome/pretty face or were brainwashed by the liberal media and the scurulous tactics of other liberals. I guess if Obama got elected twice, once out of nowhere, and never had a real job, then Ashley could be elected too. Neither one of them being good for the country.

Robert,

As opposed to what rock you live under?

Nonsense and this is the same for you creeps. Call the other guy what you really are to soften your position.

Thanks but just a regular guy, and anyway according to some of the supremes it has.........

Not really. People who feel weak will attack others. When I was young and was 135 lbs I was skinny shrimp. Now that I'm 6 feet and 205 lbs I'm fat. I had hair down on my back and I was a crazy hippy now that it's short I'm a stupid redneck. It is really about manners. They are showing their raising.

Appears the Supreme court thinks we do not have enough of it.

As long as humans refuse to understand "what" racism is, racism will never die.

Racism is a matter of Fact. If a person says something about another race and what that person says is true, is it still racism?? Fact is truth and truth is fact, there is no seperating them. So if a person says something and it's True, then it's not Racism. The media and the government is trying to force all of us to hide our heads in the sand and to not see Truth. Ain't gonna happen.

Yo vwterry Taiwan is an independent nation go back to high school

Well, two wrongs don't make a right.

Two wrongs make things even worse.

So you support the racist slurs against Mrs. McConnell, Dr. Sam?

Arthur, what racial slurs against Mrs. McConnell. Have yet to hear one. Please elaborate. If you are referring to the comments about "maybe that explains why your job went to China", that hardly sounds like a racial slur (except to paranoid you, of course, and you merry band of dimwits).

Labeling a Taiwanese woman "from China" is a racially insensitive statement. It's a generalization that all Asian women are "Chinese".

That racial slur. There, I have elaborated.

Do you denounce that slur, or can you only lob personal attacks??

Henry-1014127 You are a hypocrite like ALL liberals. You and your liberal buddies scream 'racist' every single time someone disagrees with Obama. I have never used a racial slur and I have never said anything that any reasonable person could construe as racist when speaking against Obama's policies and yet, I have been called a racist many times. The comment made by the liberal group as quoted in the article IS a racial slur. There is NO WAY to justify it, to excuse it, or call it anything other than what it is and what it was intended to be...a racial slur.

Yo Art, Taiwan IS part of China, so she is of Chinese heritage. Move on.

vwterry, you're splitting hairs. It's like calling someone from Puerto Rico an American. He/she's not.

Labeling a Taiwanese woman "from China" is a racially insensitive statement.

so now Taiwan is Not China, Artie? I wish you'd clue them into that fact. And No, it is not racially insensitive. It is a statement of fact.

Unable to argue the merits. ^^^

there are No merits to argue. there is no redeeming value or merit to Mitch McConnell. He is devoid of any rational thought in his brain and should be considered on the same level as a 6 year old. No actual proven fact has been uttered by him for 10 years. He is a congenital liar.

So, in a country of 315 million people, all you could

and in a country of 315 million people, all that could be found disparaging his "wife" was somebody on a Twitter account.

Uh, so are you saying that since she was born in Taiwan, then part of China following the establishment of the PRC in 1949, she is not Chinese?

And, at this moment Puerto Ricans are considered US citizens per the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917 and in fact are issued US passports. Do you have something against Puerto Ricans?

The comments were out of line

Arthur66 you just an idiot know before you speak. She is in fact Chinese, both her parent fled to taiwan when the communist took over. And Puerto Ricans are Americans,On March 2, 1917, the Jones-Shafroth Act was signed, granting collective United States citizenship to Puerto Ricans. They even voted for statehood in the last election.

Arthur66 ~~~ According to poster, BoredwithsameO, Mrs. McConnel's family immigrated to Taiwan from China after the communist takeover of China in the late forties. I have not double-checked, but it sounds reasonable to me. Have you double-checked ???

Arthur66

Labeling a Taiwanese woman "from China" is a racially insensitive statement. It's a generalization that all Asian women are "Chinese".

People in China and Taiwan are ethnically identical. There is only a big difference in thier minds only. So really it was more culturally insensitive than racial.

Told you Arthur was smoking the dope! BUSTED! Hey Numb Nuts! Puerto Rico is an American territory.

SINCE 1917 Puerto Ricans Are American Citizens! Good grief, put down the bong!

You trolling double dumb ass!

Well, two wrongs don't make a right.

Two wrongs make things even worse.

Pigotry, well said and I completely agree, too bad some others don't think so.

Labeling a Taiwanese woman "from China" is a racially insensitive statement. It's a generalization that all Asian women are "Chinese".

NONSENSE...Only to validate your stupid comments. This from a person who spent time both in Taiwan and mainland China. They are all Chinese first and Tiwanese second get a life and learn something.

Really, Elaine Chao's ethnicity should never be an issue, or if she is "American enough".

Her real faults are as follows:

1. She was a lousy Sec. Labor appointed by a lousy president

2. She married a louse.

Mitch McConnell is every bit of what he, and his fellow wing-nuts, describe as "Socialist": He is payed by the taxpayers, his family benefits from taxpayer-provided health care, has a taxpayer-provided job, and doesn't do a damn thing at work.

So, in the end, there's plenty to pound "mortician Mitch" about, on the campaign trail. No need to attack his wife; she'd already proved herself incompetent.

There was no racial slur. you people and they, just assumed it was racially based. it was a complaint about her former position and the fact that we lost most of the jobs during her tenure. Sorry guys, there really is no story here, just a complaint about another secretary. But this shows how clever republicans are. spin baby spin

Dr. DumbSam, and just how was Bush treated by the NAACP and the congressional black cacus, I will wait for your answer Einstein.

And also so-called "Dr"Sam. Your messiah is not America's first black president. He is America's first half white president. He is half white, about 37% Arabic and only 13% black.

You got that right. If a Republican had said that about a Democrat or a Liberal this would have headline news on every news station in the country.

Did you read the article?

"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."

At the time of the founding, of the KKK , the South was heavily Democrat. Over the next hundred plus years , the parties would reverse in states rights stance , among other subjects. Thus the blue states of 1860 are the red states of 2013 , and visa versa.

Hey Michael, Scar has it right. Today's Republican party is yesterday's Democratic party. But that is not convenient for you. Or are you just parroting what you hear from you right fringe buddies?

That is complete and utter revisionist history by Scar and Henry.

Never mind Bob Byrd, Al Gore Sr., William Fullbright, Theo Bilbo, George Smathers, James Eastland and ALL the Democrats who voted against the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.

We only need to go back a few months!

Keith Judd, a white, convicted and jailed felon got 41% of the registered Democrat vote in the 2012 West Virginia primary. Now why would all those Democrats vote for a white man in prison instead of President Obama.........?

Arthur66: Ever look at the electoral map as of 2012??

All those Yankee states were Republican in 1860.

All those Rebel states were Democrat in 1860.

West Virginia was a "border state" , thus mixed sentiments regarding the Civil war.

However, anti-fed sentiments in W Virginia & elsewhere in the mountains, were accelerated by the enforcement of alcohol prohibition of the late 1920's and later.

Did you flunk history in High School???

What does the electoral map have anything to do with the Ku Klux Klan and Democrat racism?

You're stretching, big time.

We know the liberal ideology is a religion to you, but you've lost this battle.

The Kentucky "Progressives" went racial, they made a mistake, and they admitted it.

Are you still defending the racists???

Arthur66:

You do not realize , though I do not like your boy , I'm defending his wife.

I do not think anyone should be attacked because of their race.

Again:

All those Yankee states were Republican in 1860.

All those Rebel states were Democrat in 1860.

West Virginia was a "border state" , thus mixed sentiments regarding the Civil war.

However, anti-fed sentiments in W Virginia & elsewhere in the mountains, were accelerated by the enforcement of alcohol prohibition of the late 1920's and later.

What part of that do you not get?? The Kentucky Progressives may rott big time. But KKK? old south???new democrat???......none of above.

Are you still defending the racists??? No, I'm opposing the absolute stupidity your projecting.

But, better yet , prove me historically wrong. Get your google going.

just so you actually know what your referring too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

Nice try, Arthur, but while you're hung up on Democrats from the 1960s being the same as Democrats from the 2010s. I guess by that same calculus then Ronald Reagan died a moderate Democrat who believed in gun control and signed Affirmative Action into law in California.

I guess for some folks political parties' stances don't evolve over time so they might as well be voting Whig party down the card, afterall the a political platform that was valid in the 18th Century has to still be good today, right? What's the Democratic-Republicans' stance on using leechs to cure scurvy and how that can be used as an alternative to Obamacare anyway?

But more to the point, Arthur: even if both politcal parties didn't evolve their political stances over the last 50 years so that your image of the Southern Democrat still rings 100% true it still doesn't address the bigger fact that REPUBLICANS DIDN'T DO JACK FOR MINORITIES THROUGH THAT WHOLE JIM CROW PERIOD EITHER!!

Neo-nuts like to paint the Southern Democrats as being the only racists that had existed through all those decades of institutionalized racism and oppression while conveniently forgeting that white Republicans didn't give a shyte about correcting racism much either. And if you doubt me name then ONE Rupublican piece of civil rights/anti-racism legislation passed over that same period dominated by the infamous Southern Republicans...

Take your time with that, too; it might take your a while to find something

Arthur, man you are WAY OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE! Everything you've said coming out of your shallow - narrowed minded little brain has being proven wrong EVERY time! Even the dumbest dumb ass knows when to just shut their pie hole and walk away.

She is in fact Chinese, both her parent fled to taiwan when the communist took over.

Mellnick, Most Taiwanese are Chinese who speak Mandarin and have their roots in China. What else would they be, no news here at all.

Senator Robert Byrd D/WV was a robe wearing KKK member during the 1940s. He filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and supported the Vietnam War. The longest sitting member of the US Congress, died while in office - 2010...

JFK - voted against the Civil Rights Act as a Senator. The same as many of the Democrat Leadership did then and later during 1964...

If it was not for the Republicans, the 1964 Civil Rights Act would have been DEFEATED...

The Civil War southern Democrats formed the KKK to fight against the Republicans and the NEW Federal regulations...

The 1940's KKK fought against the; northern Unions, supported Women's right to vote and had both Democrats & Republicans...

The 1960's KKK groups were closely allied with the police and operated with impunity. The southern KKK members were mainly White Democrats. They were oposing; court-ordered busing to desegregate schools, affirmative action and more open immigration...

Yes Political Parties evolve and change their POLICIES. But they CAN NOT change their HISTORY...

BTY - I grew-up in Southside Virginia during the 1960's and saw who was supported, by whom. My brother ran for political office there during the late 1980s, things had not changed...

Actually dumb az the KKK was not started by either party look it up you might be surprised.. Actually your comment is useless as when Strom Thumond left the democratic party the vast majority of those in the democrats followed him and now the southern racists are all republicans except for a few who still hate Republicanism since lincoln started that party.

democrats are the worst racists. My ultra-liberal dad leads the democrat party of a rather large state. He has spoken at the naacp 3 times. But he routinely calls black "jungle bunnies" in private. My mom is second in charge of the democratic party in a rather large state. She calls homosexuals "queers" and says they are all going to hell.

My drunken aunts and uncles and pothead cousins in NYC routinely say the "n_ggers" are causing them to be poor. Yet they have voted democrat 100% of the time.

Liberals. God love em! LMFAO!!

democrats are the worst racists. My ultra-liberal dad leads the democrat party of a rather large state. He has spoken at the naacp 3 times. But he routinely calls black "jungle bunnies" in private. My mom is second in charge of the democratic party in a rather large state. She calls homosexuals "queers" and says they are all going to hell.

My drunken aunts and uncles and pothead cousins in NYC routinely say the "n_ggers" are causing them to be poor. Yet they have voted democrat 100% of the time.

Liberals. God love em! LMFAO!!

Wow, Bobster! you and your family are pretty messed up. You have my sympathy.

The founding party of the KKK really, actually it was a group of southern democrats one of which was Nathan Bedford Forrest a confederate general that started the KKK. If you read history you would know Lincoln was the first republican president, the pro slavery candidate was a democrat.

AC Robertson:

The vote by region: 1964 Civil Rights Act:

The original House version:

• Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
• Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)

• Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
• Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)

The Senate version:

• Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
• Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
• Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
• Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)

And you were saying?? Normally your more accurate .

Now Southern Republicans did what???

Really? You really that surprised liberals are bigots?

But what's not surprising is the educational level of Americans, who think all Asians are Chinese. Reminds me of that King of the Hill episode -

Are you Chinese or Japanese?
I'm Laotian!
Uh... what ocean?
You know, Laotian, from Laos!
Uh... are you Chinese or Japanese?

Typical isn't it? USA will not recognize the sovereign state of Taiwan to protect their economic ties with China. And then turns around and accuse a Taiwanese woman as Chinese. Taiwan is an enemy of China, trust me they won't want your jobs there.

Scar-481986,

You have to watch out on Wikipedia, they like to screw with their information formats...

Totals are in "Yea–Nay" format:

The original House version:

• Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%) - That would be 93% that voted NAY
• Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
• Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
• Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%) - That would be 85% that voted YEA

The Senate version:

• Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%) - That would be 95% that voted NAY
• Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
• Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
• Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%) - That would be 84% that voted YEA

BTY - 45 YEA votes in the Senate would have not passed the Bill...

Only REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES can be racists ... DEMOCRATs AND LIBERALs can say anything and are considered erudite ...

gustifer, can you name specific examples of his "racist overtures" and his "2 faced bigotry"?

Or is that just partisan conjecture intended to smear this man, Mitch McConnell??

Please name your examples.

Sources that he is a racist?

Ah! The usual, and predictable, accusation. Odd. If he was, the left would count it as a plus.

He is gay. She is the beard.

sbs ~~~~~ True or not, it's none of your business !!!

Yup, I think you hit the nail of the head. But the GOP would rather just forget about that episode that did not work out too well for them. The GOP is a party of race baiting racists. Nothing more, nothing less.

I'm assuming that you are just being defensive, and are not really so dense as to not see the offense. But I'll explain it to you, anyway. It's not insulting because they were calling her Chinese. That's easy to figure out because they didn't, in fact, ever call her Chinese. It's insulting because they are saying that because of her Chinese ancestry, she is selling out her country to move jobs to her 'home country'. It's the exact same as someone saying that Obama is secretly allied with Al-Queda because he's 'obviously a moslem.'

KayEllen << << <<>> >> >> I've seen a few, but very few, racist comments directed toward President and Mrs. Obama. I have seen MANY comments by Democrats/Liberals turning EVERY, however well-founded, criticism of the POTUS & First Lady into racism.

Ashley is a better person and will be a better politician then his RACIST A$$!!!!!!

Ashley can't make a go of a marriage let alone a state.

gustifer, again making accusations he/she cannot back up.

I challenge you to name and post evidence of a SINGLE incident that supports your claim of McConnell being a "racist ass".

It's funny how someone who is married to someone of a different race gets the racist tag on them.

Ponti, Do you mean like Ronnie Ragun Bubba?

Let me get this right. If a "darkie" , or non caucasian, makes a non tolerant racial remark, its not racism . Thats what your saying??

Dam, I though the word had a different meaning.

By the way , I really don't care for him. But your argument is beyond hypocrisy.

But , everyone, at least the politically correct everyone, knows a black person can't be a racist . Right???

What unfunded wars, unfunded Medicare Part D and unfunded tax cuts paid for with borrowed money from a communist country did Clinton get us into?

Ok folks let's get real. The RW GOP has been taking potshots at the first lady for the past four years...some racial, some just plain nasty...McConnell never made an attempt to say No Fair Spouses should be off the grid for nasty comments. Besides his wife has been a hyper Republican going on Sunday Talk shows for years. I think McConnell did not want to remind TeaParty crazed GOP that he is married to a Chinese American. Anybody remember McConnelll getting out in front of his fellow GOP who have tried to sell the President as being a Kenyan rather than American born? McConnell's base is so xenophobic and so RW, he wanted to take the sting out of their dislike of him being married to a Chinese person that he raises race to deflect any negatives the marriage may have for some in his Republican base. I find it interesting he's pulling the race card...racism Mitch? No just an acknowledgement that your wife is Chinese...born in Taiwan...nothing wrong with that...but it is factual unlike the allegation that Obama was born in Kenya

You're projecting, BD.

Took them three years to get a visa just to get here. Sound like the average illegals journey??hmmm???

Compare apples to watermelons much???

How long did his wife wait to become a citizen? I really doubt she crossed the border and was give papers.

Well Indiana Rick, you have really showed your stupidity. There is a WORLD OF DIFFERENCE between immigrating here ILLEGALLY and immigrating here legally. Who says it's not ok for Mexicans to come here and become citizens? ALL U.S. Citizens should be against ILLEGAL (that's right ILLEGAL) immigration. PUTZ.

They have matching bags. They make a cute couple.

Speaking of matching bags, "How about B. H. O-bamma and moochele". Now that's a couple.

green card?

^^^ can only lob personal attacks, unable to argue the merits ^^^

And which merit might you be arguing, Arthur?

Go suck on a koch.

No wonder why Southern Democrats are an endangered species.

They have helped dig their own graves..with such behavior.

Pigotry: Explain to me, why you consider a Kentucky Progressive group to be a " Southern Democrat" .

I just don't get the geography of your statement. Historically, Civil War wise, they were a border state that leaned Northern.

Scar, I myself am leaning liberal...always. Actually I am a pro-Obama Independent.

I think Kentucky is in the South geographically? This Kentucky as border state leaning Northern was civil war era classification? Civil War was long past. Culturally Kentucky is more South than north.

But please enlighten me. I can be wrong. No offense intended.

A little enlightening help for you Pigotry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_in_the_American_Civil_War

By the way, I'm a registered Democrat , who votes for whoever is the best candidate.

Pigotry: " Culturally Kentucky is more South than north."

Lets say your from New Jersey. Culturally, how much do you have in common with say ....Maine??? Except from the civil war??

From the people I've met from both places?? Not a lot. But both are considered "northern".

I wonder if she had been white and blonde would there have been an apology?

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The south begins at the Mason-Dixon line...anything south of Pennsylvania. Kentucky is "south". What in the world are you trying to prove? This sounds like a 4th grade geography quiz...

Members of the Kentucky Progress and their fellow Southern Democrats will sooner and later join the GOP, as most other Southern Demcrats have done.

Well , I'm a Registered Southern Democrat.

Glad to hear you want me to become, or vote for, a Republican.

Unlike most people , I vote at every election.

Jack couldn't read #25.7 ?? Just another idiot not willing to read real history. Beyond , what they semi learned in public school.

Scar...which party you will vote for in the future is your choice, & yours only. I am not here to push you either way. If you consider Kentucky as northern, I certainly respect your opinion. There is so much diversity in every community, big and small.

It's just my general observation that since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, so many southern Democrats have left the Democratic Party.