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Speculation Stirs Actress Ashley Judd Could Challenge (Senate Minority Leader) McConnell
The Hill ^ | 11/08/12 10:35 AM ET | By Daniel Strauss

Posted on 11/08/2012 5:04:56 PM PST by drewh

Actress Ashley Judd's name is being thrown out as a Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2014.

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) listed her as a possibility.

"If you had an Ashley Judd-McConnell race, I think it would be as high profile a race as Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown," Yarmuth said in an interview with the Courier-Journal of Kentucky, referring to the Massachusetts Senate candidates.

Judd has been active in Democratic politics. She was a delegate at the Democratic National Committee and also taped campaign ads for President Obama.

McConnell has begun gearing up for his reelection bid. He has a war chest of about $7 million and also hired former Ron Paul aide Jesse Benton to run his campaign.

Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, Lt. Gov Jerry Abramson and Obama campaign fundraiser Matthew Barzun, have also been mentioned as possible Democratic challengers to McConnell.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: alisongrimes; ashleyjudd; jerryabramson; jessebenton; johnyarmuth; kentucky; matthewbarzun; mitchmcconnell
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To: Chode

Yeah, I shoulda said Monte Carlo, I think that’s where all the F-1 guys are domiciled.


41 posted on 11/08/2012 5:48:59 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's bankruptcy: 2016)
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To: dead

Did she make that statement before, or after, stripping for nearly every movie she’s ever been in?


42 posted on 11/08/2012 5:50:07 PM PST by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: drewh

If you had posted this on Monday, I would have laughed. But today? Why not. We are a superficial, celebrity driven society. She’ll probably win


43 posted on 11/08/2012 5:51:00 PM PST by Hildy (hen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - Socrates)
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To: angcat

She’s educated the same way Obama was, she is still trailer trash and her ego is bigger than her sense and logic. I don’t know about “celebrity status” but those people only listen to the stooges who worship anything “hollywood”. Go away and get a real education not an indoctrination. Silly b*****


44 posted on 11/08/2012 5:51:54 PM PST by Rockiette (Democrats are not intelligent)
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To: nascarnation
bingo...
45 posted on 11/08/2012 5:56:31 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Flag_This
thank you...
46 posted on 11/08/2012 5:58:35 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: drewh

She’s a classic case of too much self-esteem & too little talent.


47 posted on 11/08/2012 5:58:35 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: erlayman
UH, Michelle Obama went to Harvard...Law.

And she wasn't even famous.

Then again, Chelsea Clinton went to Stanford and Oxford.

48 posted on 11/08/2012 6:05:39 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: drewh

Uhhh, if that’s a pic of her what movie roles is she going to get? The Return of ET?


49 posted on 11/08/2012 6:08:35 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: drewh

“The Whore With More”—could work!!


50 posted on 11/08/2012 6:12:57 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: All

Her only talent is showing her boobs in B-Movies.


51 posted on 11/08/2012 6:22:54 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield ("We have boats that carry planes and other boats that go underwater")
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To: drewh

We’d have never even heard of her if she wasn’t a pretty face and willing to take her clothes off for money while being filmed.


52 posted on 11/08/2012 6:23:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: erlayman

When you are a celeb, you can pretty much buy those academic degrees.

She has big mental health issues. Hospitalized for it, if I recall correctly.


53 posted on 11/08/2012 6:24:37 PM PST by sockhead (Socialism: trickle up poverty.)
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To: drewh

She lives in Brentwood, Tennessee. It is tough to run for office in Kentucky when you live in Tennessee.


54 posted on 11/08/2012 6:24:40 PM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: sockhead

Well then, she is a shoe-in for the new freak show.


55 posted on 11/08/2012 6:28:09 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Toespi

Haha! I agree.


56 posted on 11/08/2012 6:31:45 PM PST by sockhead (Socialism: trickle up poverty.)
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To: linn37

Free lipstick for all pigs.


57 posted on 11/08/2012 6:32:04 PM PST by funfan
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To: linn37

Free lipstick for all pigs.


58 posted on 11/08/2012 6:32:16 PM PST by funfan
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To: ConservativeStatement
Just two reasons, out of many, that I pray she runs

The couple divide their time between a home in Scotland and their farm outside Franklin, Tennessee, USA. They have no children. In her book she said this is because she considers it "unconscionable to breed."

February 2006, Judd entered a program at Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas and stayed for 47 days. She was there because of personal issues, including depression, insomnia and codependency.

59 posted on 11/08/2012 6:32:29 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: drewh

She would likely collect some votes in Lexington, Louisville, and Bowling Green..college/urban type of settings...but the rest of KY would basically ignore her...


60 posted on 11/08/2012 6:33:27 PM PST by GLH3IL (Slainte Mhath)
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