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Related: About this forumAshley Judd: "Under the bus?"
Hollywood actress-turned-Senate-hopeful Ashley Judd may have a harder time winning the hearts and minds of Democrats to support her campaign against Sen. Mitch McConnell after all.
Democratic Party leaders are stepping back and taking a clear look at the candidate, and some say she may not be best to run against the five-term Kentucky senator in 2014, Newsmax reports.
Shes going to have a tough road to hoe, said Jim Cauley, campaign manager for Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear in 2007, in a ThisWeek.com report. She doesnt fit the damn state, which is a conservative stronghold. Fully 60 percent of Kentuckians voted for Mitt Romney in 2012.
Democrats have begun expressing concern about some of Ms. Judds statements and views. ThisWeek.com reports, Democrats worry that Judd, a political neophyte, could cost the party a winnable race.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/15/democrats-step-back-ashley-judd-senate-drive/#ixzz2NoiOCgP2
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Go for it Ashley!!!
(Forgive the source, PLEASE?)
murielm99
(30,657 posts)Newsmax!??
Consider the source.
pscot
(21,023 posts)They must be worried.
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Get Cooter (Ben Jones) to stand with her and note that those from Hollywood can win political office in the south!
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)Obviously not everyone is going to be happy no matter who the candidate is and that is true in any race, but Ashley Judd has a ton of enthusiasm behind her and the opinion of this small minority of "leaders" does not change that. The Washington Times is trying to make it appear as if the opposition to her is far stronger than it actually is.
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)Zorro
(15,691 posts)Hoeing rows a little less so.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)I had this mental picture of someone hoeing a road. You don't hoe a road, you hoe a row!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)all bets are off. Me thinks that what McTurtle did in response in Nevada in 2010 to defeat Reid,both parties my have a backroom deal. Judd can win this race if it is run like Warren's race against Brown. Teabillies have been planting the same type of garbage on blogs and then pick-up by their steno's in the print media or by Fake so called GOP TV. Kentucky is in a real mess. Poverty and a drug culture is tearing that state apart. The big story should be,why aren't there any new jobs in Kentucky,and, the answer is,companies are awaking to the fact it is all about cultures and education,and they can't make money in a stupid environment. All their employable folks have been sucked up assembling autos for foreign companies. What do you have left,shinners and limited skill work force. If Judd runs on a Progressive platform she wins in a land slide. Other wise the backroom deal of Reid and Mcturtle wins.
mitchtv
(17,718 posts)if anyone is, she has as good a chance.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)My take is the rethugs have been attacking her and she hasn't even said she's running or not that tells me there SCARED to death of her running and these pu**sy Democrats need to sit down and shut the fuck up and let the democrats in Kentucky pick who they want as there candidate not the establishment
THEY'RE, don't you?
Not being a language policeman, but, if we expect teapublicans to use correct spelling and grammar, shouldn't we?
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)they can kiss my ass
Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)perhaps you should be nice & sparkly-clear on what's correct yourself, as your post before editing demonstrates.
brooklynite
(93,880 posts)She's not an announced candidate, she may not be the ONLY announced candidate. Are Party officials unable to critically analyze a candidate if she's popular among progressive bloggers?
Generation_Why
(97 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)Do you believe Ashley Judd will succumb to pressure from Big Coal like all the rest of those toadies? Not me.
Generation_Why
(97 posts)She doesn't need them, anyway.
Keefer
(713 posts)from the DLC, DNC, or whoever, in Kentucky!
David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)I'm totally with you in supporting Ashley. She can and will win.
Kentucky is going to surprise everyone. I can't wait.
Go Kentucky!
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Last time I checked, running against a decades long Republican incumbent with an enormous battle chest in one of the most Republican states in the country isn't the most winnable concept in the world. But hey, with her poll numbers, name recognition and Hollywood level financial backing, you'd be a pretty stupid Democratic strategist to try and stop her! But there are plenty of those, so it might happen...
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)Oh, that's right -- it's a lot easier to criticize than to offer solutions.
They've been so successful in the past; let someone else take a shot at the Turtle.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)next, it will go to FOX, and then the "lib'rul CNN" will be parroting it within 24 hours.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I'm not from KY and have never been there, but I'd be excited about her candidacy. If the party wants to snub her, let them. PCC and Moveon I'm sure will be glad to back her.
Bake
(21,977 posts)If she runs and is the Dem nominee, I'll support her (I'm IN Kentucky ...), but we have good Dems here who could beat Mitch.
Bake
Blue Owl
(49,937 posts)n/t
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Bunch of b.s. in my opinion.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Typical Clintonesque third-way thinking. Be a wannabe Republican and then wonder why people keep voting real Republicans.
Here's a strategic tip, you damned DINO losers. Give people a real choice.
Or are you actually a Republican at heart and you fear what would happen if we ever allowed real progressives onto the stage?
postulater
(5,075 posts)Shes going to have a tough road to hoe, said Jim Cauley, campaign manager for Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear in 2007
Really?
And she's the one who doesn't fit the state?
Anybody who lived there should know you don't hoe a road. You hoe a row, like in cotton or tobacco.