Ashley Judd: "Under the bus?"

[Keefer]

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.

“She’s 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 doesn’t 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. Judd’s statements and views. ThisWeek.com reports, “Democrats worry that Judd, a political neophyte, could cost the party a winnable race.”


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Go for it Ashley!!!

(Forgive the source, PLEASE?)

[murielm99]

1. Washington Times??

Newsmax!??

Consider the source.

[pscot]

2. Catapulting the Propaganda

They must be worried.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. +1 They are trying to influence Democratic thought. nt

[cascadiance]

30. Call them who they are! MOONIE Times!

Get Cooter (Ben Jones) to stand with her and note that those from Hollywood can win political office in the south!

[Bjorn Against]

4. The Democratic Party "leaders" again

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]

5. And applies to any Democrat in a conservative state

[Zorro]

6. Hoeing roads is particularly difficult

Hoeing rows a little less so.

[louis-t]

26. You know, I started doubting my own knowledge...

I had this mental picture of someone hoeing a road. You don't hoe a road, you hoe a row!

[Wellstone ruled]

7. After what Reid did to get McTurtle defeated in 2008,

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]

8. Winnable?

if anyone is, she has as good a chance.

[bigdarryl]

9. Sounds like a bunch of COWARD!!! DEM'S listening to what the rethugs say

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

[Keefer]

11. You mean

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]

12. I don't give a rats ass what the tea fucks think about my spelling

they can kiss my ass

[demgrrrll]

18. 2X

[Cirque du So-What]

15. Before correcting the grammar and usage of others

perhaps you should be nice & sparkly-clear on what's correct yourself, as your post before editing demonstrates.

[brooklynite]

10. How is being concerned about her ability to win "throwing her under the bus"?

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]

13. Big coal has a stranglehold on both parties in Kentucky. nt

[Cirque du So-What]

14. All the more reason to elect an outsider like Ashley Judd

Do you believe Ashley Judd will succumb to pressure from Big Coal like all the rest of those toadies? Not me.

[Generation_Why]

16. Not at all. I meant that's why they're throwing her under the bus.

She doesn't need them, anyway.

[Keefer]

17. She needs all the help she can get...

from the DLC, DNC, or whoever, in Kentucky!

[David Zephyr]

19. Newmax and the Washington Times. It means they are scared of Ashley.

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]

20. Quite a transparent bit of propaganda. nt

[Tiggeroshii]

21. "...could cost the Democrats a winnable race?"

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]

22. "And the person we think would be a better candidate is..."

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]

23. Fucker Carlson's rag was pushing this narrative this morning, now the Moonie Times has picked it up

next, it will go to FOX, and then the "lib'rul CNN" will be parroting it within 24 hours.

[davidpdx]

24. If she chooses to run I'll support her

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]

25. I"ve had reservations about Ms. Judd for the same reasons.

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]

27. Turtle Wax that motherfuckin' McConMan

n/t

[DesertRat]

28. Who are the so-called Democratic leaders they supposedly reference?

Bunch of b.s. in my opinion.

[BlueStreak]

29. Kentucky is a "conservative state" precisely because of attitudes like Cauley

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]

31. Who doesn't fit?

“She’s 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.