Ashley Judd's run for office (will she?) will be ugly..count on it.

[SoCalDem]

Last edited Tue Mar 5, 2013, 06:36 PM - Edit history (1)

It's different when an actress runs for office.

Ronald Reagan got some good-natured ribbing over the Bonzo movies he made, but other than being a not-very-good- B actor, that was about the extent of it.

Young women who are starting a career, often HAVE to "bare some skin" in order to get acting jobs, and once it's on film, it's always there and will always haunt them, when they shift to more mainstream/political endeavors.
Young female actors are usually eye-candy and do not carry a film. They are there because they are pretty, sexy and the men who see the film will fantasize about them.

Young male actors are nice to look at too, but they can get their start by being in action films, or as the buddy of the star, and their early work usually is clothed, since the star is the one who is intended to be the one in the limelight.

Scott Brown's playful "nude" picture is not in the same vein, and as a man, was not the issue it would be for a woman doing the exact same thing.

Nudity in movies is usually tied into sex scenes, which are acting, but are intended to be titillating.

Even as a woman ages and becomes less "starlet-y", her early work lives on and she is constantly compared to what she "used to look like".

I have no doubt that Ashley Judd would be a better senator than the chinless-wonder has ever been, and I hope she can weather the storm that is sure to come her way.. Look at the dirt they have already dished just in case she runs..

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Not much can out-ugly O'Connell.

I hope Judd whups him good and proper.

[madville]

2. Does she have to live in Kentucky to run there?

Just curious if she has to move back by a certain time. Romney carried the state by almost 20 points, but MM's 2008 Senate race was only a 6 point victory, tough battle an call for sure.

[SoCalDem]

5. She has a farm there..has for a LONG time..

she's as much a "resident" there as Romney was in ANY of his "home states"......and then there is always Liddy Dole who had lived in DC for DECADES when she used her Momma's house as her "residence" in NC..

and there is the Big Evil Dick who had not "lived" in WY for DECADES when he chose himself as veep..

Residence for wealthy people with multiple homes is always "worked around"..

[JanMichael]

3. edited

Looked it up, I swear I could not remember her doing nude scenes....I guess she did.

I have to agree with your post...this will upset some fundies, particularly in the KY/TN areas-

[riverbenddem]

4. I could live with her in office!

[Demoiselle]

6. She should run this as her first campaign poster.

I'm serious. The Turkey Wattle candidate (and yes, I'm being Lookist) will surely publish this. She should get ahead of him.
I think it's pretty impressive when a woman can flirt with the sexist standards of show biz without actually exposing you-know-whats.
It's a beautiful picture.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Glenda Jackson managed OK

Having read that RW losers are complaining about her movies, I used the referenced site to compare the nudity Jackson and Judd have done - it's about the same (roughly 5 movies). You'd think that Jackson, doing it in the early 70s when such things were a little more controversial, and standing in 1992 (for the first time), would get more criticism, if anything - but I don't remember the Tories saying anything about it at all.