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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ashley Judd: "Under the bus?" [View all]
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!!!
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How is being concerned about her ability to win "throwing her under the bus"?
brooklynite
Mar 2013
#10
Fucker Carlson's rag was pushing this narrative this morning, now the Moonie Times has picked it up
Adenoid_Hynkel
Mar 2013
#23
Kentucky is a "conservative state" precisely because of attitudes like Cauley
BlueStreak
Mar 2013
#29