Turns out his second and current wife is Pres. Bush's former labor secretary Elaine Chao, who is of Chinese descent and was born in Taiwan. She was the first Asian-American to serve in the cabinet.
And the "attack"? The Washington Post politics blog suggests it came from a Democratic super PAC called Progress Kentucky that sent a Valentine's Day tweet on February 14. The Post provides a link to a page that is gone, but offers this much as the tweet's text:
"This woman has the ear of @ mcconnellpress --
she's his #wife .
May explain why your job moved to #China ! rense.com/general77/raci" "
So the tweet reveals:
1. No attack on Elaine Chao's ethnicity;
2. An implied denigration of her nationality in a global economic context;
3. An implication of a conflict of interest based on her Chinese connections;
4. An attack on her (and anyone else involved) for sending American jobs to China;
5. And the suggestion that she has undue influence on her husband.
So McConnell's response dishonestly goes for the hot button of race, while falsely asserting that race was used against his wife. Clearly, insofar as there is any attack in the tweet, it is aimed at Elaine Chao's role, if any, in the disemboweling of the American economic system by the Bush administration. Whetever Chao's role, the pliant Senator McConnell was at least an accomplice in the Bush administration's economic evisceration of America.
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