Ashley Judd is NOT running for Senate

[babylonsister]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/27/ashley-judd-is-not-running-for-senate/


Ashley Judd is not running for Senate

Posted by Chris Cillizza on March 27, 2013 at 5:04 pm


Update: Ashley Judd has announced via Twitter that she will not run for Senate. “After serious and thorough contemplation, I realize that my responsibilities & energy at this time need to be focused on my family,” she wrote.

Actress Ashley Judd has decided not to pursue a bid for the Kentucky Senate race, according to two sources familiar with her decision.

A source close to Judd said that Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes’ interest in potential race made the decision not to run easier. “The timing just wasn’t right,” said the source.

Judd’s potential candidacy against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) drew national headlines. While she received encouragement from the likes of Kentucky Rep. John Yarmuth, other Democrats in the state expressed apprehension about her candidacy.

Democratic Senate strategists have argued that Judd would be a good, if unconventional candidate, pointing to her ability to rival or even eclipse McConnell in fundraising. But McConnell’s path to victory involves savaging his opponent, and Judd’s status as an actress and celebrity would have offered him loads of ammunition.

[hrmjustin]

1. SHe would have put up a good fight but I understand why she does not want to do it.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

2. Damn. I wonder what they have on her?

[niyad]

4. so you don't think it is possible that she just decided she does not want to subject her family

and herself to the cesspool that is american politics, particularly as practiced by the pukes?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

6. I think what I think. You can think what you want.

[niyad]

7. I think that was an incredibly offensive remark about her. the woman lives her life in the

public eye. but, as you said, you can think what you want.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

12. It is not an offensive remark about her. It is an offensive remark about the powers that be who

have the resources and energy to discourage good people from running for office.

There are some good people in office, and I'm thinking of Sanders and Warren as two example, but they are rare.

If you don't think that such examples are rare, tell me who your other good politicians are.

[Tempest]

15. Your remarks are being made without evidence

Where is your evidence "the powers that be" is keeping her from running for office?

And again, it's insulting to Judd and women everywhere to make your assumption.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

19. There's no evidence that the rich and the super-rich are "the powers that be"?

Really?

Good to know. Thanks for your special insight.

[Tempest]

21. Do you always have trouble following a thread?

The subject isn't who makes up "the powers that be", the subject is you making the claim those powers are blackmailing Judd to keep her from running.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

23. Blackmailing? Blackmailing and not just dissuading?

"the subject is you making the claim those powers are blackmailing Judd to keep her from running."

I never said that anyone was blackmailing her.

You liar.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

34. Here's the evidence:

Ashley Judd Adviser: Small Group Of Dems ‘Duped’ Media And Shoved Her Out Of Race
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022597225

Among other things, Bill Clinton and other 3rd-Wayers were opposed to her being in the race. Someone took action to plant disinformation to kick her out of the race.

[Tempest]

9. You insulted her

By claiming she has skeletons in her closet, you insulted her.

Period.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

10. I did not. None of us are angels. Not one. If I insulted anyone, it the powers that be

who dissuade non-professionals from running.

[Tempest]

11. You insulted her

By claiming she had something being held against her to keep her from running you are saying she has something desperate to hide.

That's insulting.

And to believe "the powers that be" will dictate what a strong intelligent woman decides is also insulting to Judd and women everywhere.

Not to mention it's tin foil hat stuff.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

13. Nonsense. You are using a false interpretation of what I said.

And your I'm-so-offended-by-what-others-say shtick is really old and tiring.

[Tempest]

16. You insulted her. Twice.

Your interpretation is not left up to debate. You made it clear. She's not running because someone is holding something over her head.

Insulting.

[niyad]

24. you insulted her, and your pathetic attempt to turn it around on those of us who are callling

you on it is also insulting. "I wonder what they have on her" is NOT about "the powers that be" but a direct reference to her life and her behaviour. You go ahead and keep pretending. The rest of us here are not comprehension-challenged. Honestly, your remark was something I would expect from the other side.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

35. Wrong. See DU's Ashley Judd Adviser: Small Group Of Dems ‘Duped’ Media And Shoved Her Out Of Race

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022597225

Among other things, Bill Clinton and other 3rd-Wayers were opposed to her being in the race. Someone took action to plant disinformation to kick her out of the race.

[Whisp]

38. Judd just may be too much of her own person

to fit into the job of being a candidate with strings attached.

She had as good a chance to unseat the Turtle as anyone, imho. But Bill and his team prefer someone more 'malleable'.

I don't believe for a second that pressure wasn't put on her to not run and Billy Bob was the applier.

This can be as true as any bullshit we read about. Makes more sense, actually.

[a kennedy]

26. Politics is a dirty, dirty business.....

understand completely that she doesn't want to "get" in it. I'm sad, but totally understand.

[LiberalFighter]

5. I doubt that they have anything on her. More likely...

they were refusing to provide any help. State Democrats can be pretty fucked up with their turf. One of the problems might have been those State Democrats would had been upset with losing their power.

[Tempest]

8. Damn. Try reading the article

"A source close to Judd said that Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes’ interest in potential race made the decision not to run easier. "

She's stepping aside so another Democrat can run. A Democrat who is already in the state government and has a better chance of defeating the Turtle.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

14. Is Allison Lundergan Grimes a populist? Somehow I don't think so, and I don't think that you can

point to any event in support of that.

Ashley Judd might have been. Some of us were hoping for that.

[Tempest]

17. " Somehow I don't think so"

So you're admitting to not knowing much about Judd, but you're certain "the powers that be" are holding something over her head to keep her from running.

Here, this will help you get it right:

zapatopi.net/afdb/

[AnotherMcIntosh]

18. If you have proof that Allison Lundergan Grimes is a populist, post it.

[Tempest]

20. You're changing the subject

Sigh.

Have a nice day.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

22. No, I'm not. I would have preferred that Judd would have stayed in the race.

[JoePhilly]

27. Yea ... maybe Obama got to her!!!!!

He probably used a surveillance drone to get some nude photos of her.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

28. That's your statement, not mine.

One of the things that really makes DU suck is the attribution of false statements to others.

[JoePhilly]

29. Of course its my statement ... my screen name appears right next to it.

And as for what makes DU Suck ... perhaps the real cause of that could be the attribution of false or unproven motives to others.

I mean not that anyone on DU would ever suggest that Ashley Judd's motivation for not running for Senate would be anything different than what she has publicly stated as her motive.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

36. Re your silly statement: "Ashley Judd Adviser: Small Group Of Dems ‘Duped’ Media And Shoved Her Out

of Race
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022597225

It's now been revealed that her withdrawal was affected by disinformation which was planted against her.

[freshwest]

3. I hope she will be able to commit to helping the Democrat in the race.

[davidpdx]

25. That is disappointing

I would say the changes of unseating Boner just plunged. That seat won't be in play thus 6 more years of the over-tanned drunk.

[babylonsister]

30. That would be McConnell, and

who knows? He's supremely unpopular in Kentucky.

[davidpdx]

33. True

We still have a year and a half to go.

[Whisp]

31. a daily kos link here, more info.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/22/1195932/-KY-Sen-Bill-Clinton-Gets-Involved-In-The-Kentucky-Senate-Race

[DevonRex]

37. Of course he did.

Sigh.