Report: Bill Clinton Urging Another Dem To Challenge McConnell

[ProSense]

Report: Bill Clinton Urging Another Dem To Challenge McConnell

Bill Clinton may not be a fan of actress and activist Ashley Judd, a possible challenger to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in 2014. The former president has been privately urging Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky's secretary of state, to run, according to Politico:

Grimes does have the Clintons in her corner. Earlier this month, the former president — a long-time friend of Grimes’ father — privately urged the young secretary of state to mount a Senate bid, while assuring Grimes that both he and his wife, Hillary, would get behind her should she decide to take on the powerful Senate GOP leader, according to several sources familiar with the matter.

Attending an event for former Kentucky Sen. Wendell Ford in Owensboro earlier this month, Clinton privately met with Grimes for about 35 minutes where they discussed her political future. Sources said Clinton made the case that the Senate bid would offer a bigger platform than the governor’s mansion or the U.S. House race in the 6th Congressional District, which covers Frankfort and Lexington and which the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had hoped she would pursue.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/report-bill-clinton-urging-another-dem-to-challenge

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Crypto-Republican, no doubt.

If so, no thanks.

[bluestate10]

6. No. A tough candidate who has won a statewide race and is one of a fucking thin line

of democrats that are preventing republican legislators from taking Kentucky back to 1925 like what is happening in Michigan.

It amazes me how some people that call themselves progressive and ahead of the curve can't see the damned obvious. If Judd runs and Grimes doesn't take her out in the democratic primary, republicans stand to make gains, including the Governor's mansion and maybe the office of AG. If that happen, look to hear about trans-vaginal probes and voter ID coming out of Kentucky.

[MannyGoldstein]

8. What's her stand on cutting Social Security, raising

the age for Medicare, and all of the other fabulous Third-Way garbage?

[DonCoquixote]

2. Hey,where is HILLARY?

After all, Ashely judd would seem to be the tough liberal she likes,right?

Except for the fact that Hillary is not a liberal.

[magellan]

3. Third Way Dems. Nevermore.

[Whisp]

4. that cinches it for me - Ashley Judd is who I'll be behind.

for 100% sure now that bill stuck his red liar beak into the mix.

[bluestate10]

5. Grimes is a better choice for democrats in Kentucky.

She is popular and has won a statewide race. She can take down McConnell. I am not sure Judd will do anything more than set back Kentucky democrats. I wrote a longer post in another thread. A Judd race against McConnell would be a bad outcome for democrats, women, minorities and the elderly in Kentucky because it would have the effect of enabling republicans to win statewide offices that have so far blocked republicans regressive tendency to take Kentucky back to the dark ages.

[ProSense]

7. Didn't she just get elected?

"A Judd race against McConnell would be a bad outcome for democrats, women, minorities and the elderly in Kentucky because it would have the effect of enabling republicans to win statewide offices that have so far blocked republicans regressive tendency to take Kentucky back to the dark ages."

What does that mean?

[ananda]

9. Judd is probably too liberal for the rich corporate Clinton's.

She is my kind of Democrat though!