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Mitch McConnell freaking over a tweet

By: davidadamsinky (Diary)  |  March 2nd, 2013 at 11:30 PM  | 

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Readers will awaken Sunday to national news coverage of the most powerful Republican in Washington D.C. hurling a boulder at two liberal Louisville activists for suggesting erroneously on Twitter that his wife is from China.

This is what passes for the “ultimate outrage” at a time in which we strain at petty slights but swallow whole imaginary fiscal crises like the sequester and big government blunders like providing funding for ObamaCare.

It is these latter issues which will haunt Sen. McConnell in the upcoming Republican primary for the seat he has occupied since his election in 1984. Long after this fainting goat routine runs its course, Sen. McConnell will have to run on his record.

Republican primary voters looking for seriousness in fiscal reform are in no mood to swoon for professional politicians who have become millionaires at the public trough trying to play the victim in such a transparent manner.

Sen. McConnell’s bailout and corporate welfare chickens will come home to roost in 2014. Expect a Republican replacement to be there to clean up the mess. Republican primary voters either know or can easily be reminded about how Mitch ran Jim Bunning out of the Senate for standing up to the status quo and that we wouldn’t still be playing Charlie Brown to Obama’s Lucy on debt ceiling deals if he hadn’t facilitated the debt ceiling increase and sequestration fraud in 2011.

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  • clowngirl

    I dunno. I think he should call them on it. Make liberals live up to their own rules — if they are going to claim every Republican policy is racist they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with actual racism themselves.

    • davidadamsinky

      Trashing two liberal guys with no traction for putting up an almost completely meaningless Twitter post (and one by no means containing “actual racism”) is great for getting the media salivating. But please, let’s don’t pretend we are righting any wrongs or evening any scores with this non-event.

      • Martin Knight

        You may be okay with *your* wife, husband or child coming under attack. That’s your business. But McConnell is bothered when his wife is attacked simply as a way to get to him.

        A lot of us would similarly be bothered by stuff like that.

        So there’s no need to pretend, his firing back *is* righting a wrong and evening a score. And I hope he and the KYGOP continues to pound Progress KY at every opportunity, all the way to Progress KY’s ruin and destruction.

        And this is as much because if a Republican/Conservative group had similarly attacked a Democrat’s wife, it would be all over the news and every Republican would have to answer for it, and Progress KY and it’s sister organizations around the country would be baying for blood.

        You can go $%#! yourself.

  • Martin Knight

    So let me guess; McConnell is supposed to listen to his wife being the subject of calumny and slander, then smile and let it slide?

    Can you imagine the media storm if any Right-Leaning organization were to say anything about a Democrat Senator’s wife?

    Are you really so stupid?

    • davidadamsinky

      I know it hardly matters in a political spat like this, but “calumny and slander” isn’t an entirely accurate description of what happened. The point of the post is that the point of the whole dust up is misdirection from any real issues. Are you really so easily distracted?

      • captkirc

        Unless one is willing to argue that there is some truth to the suggestion that McConnell is complicit in the outsourcing of American jobs to China because McConnell’s wife is Chinese, what Progress Kentucky posted on Twitter is absolutely slanderous by any and all definitions of the word.

        slan·der
        /ˈslandər/
        Noun
        The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation.
        Verb
        Make false and damaging statements about (someone).
        Synonyms
        noun. calumny – libel – defamation – aspersion – obloquy
        verb. defame – calumniate – traduce – vilify – backbite – libel

        • slicksleddog

          Here’s the tweet in question: “This woman has the ear of @McConnellPress — she’s his #wife. May explain why your job
          moved to #China!”

          This is not slander. Not even close. The suggestion that the tweet makes is nothing remotely like the kind of false factual statement that would be needed to make this legally actionable.

          Which is not to say that there is nothing wrong with the tweet. It’s rude, nasty, and appeals to anti-Chinese sentiments. It never should have been made, McConnell was fully justified in objecting to it, and Progress Kentucky owed McConnell and Chao an apology (which they did provide).

          • Martin Knight

            This desperate attempt to play this down – “legally actionable” (heh) – by lefties is nothing short of ridiculous.

            That being said, McConnell would be a fool to accept that so-called apology from a racist organization like Progress Kentucky.

      • Martin Knight

        So it wasn’t slander? Are you @#$%&*%! serious? So you are actually arguing that Elaine Chao as Secretary of Labor was sending jobs to China?

        Be honest, what’s really bothering you isn’t really the “distraction” from the
        “real issues” but the fact that fire is (finally) being trained on
        liberal name-callers.

        Well, troll, here’s something to make you even more bothered; the GOP’s political operatives (dumb though they may be) may have just started to wake up to the fact that letting things like this slide, allowing liberal slander-peddlers and character assassins get away unscathed, isn’t a good strategy any more.

        PS: I’m not distracted – like McConnell and the vast majority of the world, excluding you, I can walk and chew gum at the same time.

  • metrication

    Sen. McConnell is responding to a tweet specifically about his wife. He’s not dragging the Republican Party or other persons into it. He’s speaking out, by himself, for his wife.

  • rabun1016

    So liberals in Kentucky have no sense of geography? Dog bites man. But, don’t underestimate how hard it will be to supplant McConnell. No Senator ran against him for Minority Leader, and his nasty streak is much much greater than his political competence. That might serve him well in Kentucky. May not be too many billboards available to his opponents, and let me guess who will have prebought all the critical media times. Make no mistake, I can’t stand the guy, and consider him one of the biggest liabilities to the Republican party currently.

  • keepcoolwithcoolidge

    I think he’s just pointing out the hypocrisy of the left for claiming that Republicans are racist when they use words like “Chicago” and “golf”, but Democrats are not racist when they claim that McConnell’s Asian wife will send jobs to China because she looks different.