Ashley Judd and Indy 500 racer husband Dario Franchitti are getting divorced. The couple released a statement saying they "mutually decided" to end their eleven-year marriage. So, basically, they gave no real reason for the split. They are entitled to their privacy. The world doesn't really need to know the ins and outs of their day to day life. But, it does raise a few eyebrows when a seemingly perfect couple announces the demise of their fairy tale romance.
Calling their marriage a fairy tale is not too far off the mark. They were married in a castle in Scotland, after all. She thought she had found her prince charming and by all public accounts, it looked like she had. She was always there cheering at his races. Franchitti recently became the 10th driver to ever win the Indianapolis 500 three times. He also attended events with her such as Kentucky Wildcats games.
With all the talk of Judd possibly challenging the "most powerful Republican in the Senate" Mitch McConnell in 2014, does the news of this impending divorce help or hurt her chances of winning? McConnell admits to taking steps solidifying his relationship with the Tea Party. He does not fess up to being fearful of facing Judd in the upcoming primary.
Can a newly single Judd give McConnell a real run for his money?
She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Kentucky and a mid career master in public administration (MC MPA) degree from Harvard. She has also been very active over the past decade in humanitarian work. And, she represented Kentucky as a delegate for President Obama at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Not only that, she's been known to memorize the entire script when working on a movie, not just her own lines. You could probably assemble half the Republican Senators in Congress today and they couldn't compete with Judd on brain power. She smart, famous, beautiful and soon-to-be single. That could spell disaster for Mitch McConnell and his Teapublican pals.
More importantly though, Judd can relate to the American people. She didn't grow up wealthy nor come from a perfect home. She cares about people on a human level. She's not motivated by the power that politics can bring. She's motivated to do what's right for people. Special interests won't be able to buy her vote. So...Mitch McConnell or Ashley Judd? The answer is easy.
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Comments: 15
I don't think Judd's divorce will matter at all. Many elected politicians have been divorcees, including Ronald Reagan. It is not as though there are any embarrassing exposures relating to the divorce, and absent that I expect that it would be more damaging to her opponents should they try and use the failure of her marriage to besmirch her reputation.
Of course, that does not mean Republicans will not try. They have no shame, no sense of irony, no perception of their own violations of the rigid moralizing they attempt to force on others, no regard for truth and no inclination to take the high road.
Oh and the democrats only lead by example... Grow up Canadian...
But Republicans are the more divorced from reality, the more amoral, the more beholden to whackjob constituencies of the two.
Where the hell have you been? Canada?
Therefore, unless you can produce factual information showing her to be the "far left Liberal" which you claim, I would submit that your analogy is unwarranted and disrespectful of a yet to be (if ever) future politician.
Even if you are able to post some supportive information which shows that she is somewhat far left of center, I would take the position that no one and I mean absolutely no one, Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, Independent or even non voters, should ever be put in the same category as the despicable subhuman who answers to the name of Ted Nugent. He is a self made abomination of mankind and stands alone in a deplorable stinking pile of the animalistic roting excretion that he is.
I am speaking in relative terms Scott so get over yourself. In California she is a middle of the road democrat. In Kentucky, Ted Nugent is middle of the road. Wise up. You two need to put your little wienies back in your pants because Ashley Judd wouldn't let either of you near her.
The last person Kentucky sent to the Senate was Rand Paul. THAT'S my point! In Kentucky, coal country, she is the extreme left. It takes a Joe Manchin democrat to win in those areas, not somebody you two consider the "center". Joe Manchin won election after running TV ads of himself shooting a rifle into an Obama energy policy bill simply because he opposed it. Sounds like something Ted Nugent would do...
Reagan was perfect.
If there is a tax proposed, Judd likes it. If there is a new government program, she supports it. NO spending cuts! Affirmative action - she's for it. Based on some of her attacks on Sarah Palin, she is borderline PETA. Abortion at any stage should not be infringed. A Hollywood environmentalist
Thank you for comfirming that Ms. Judd has an ideology in line with the DNC, just as I found in my research and stated in my comment. You can not speak of a person in general while at the same time putting that person into a singular category, as you are trying to do with Ms. Judd.
In regards to Sarah Palin, it would appear that it may be you who has a sexual problem with women of prominence and not I. Hell, even Fox News fired the idiot after finding her to be a worthless dingbat. Besides, I'm now a senior citizen and as such, very few women have the ability to raise anything in me.
As for getting over myself, as you suggest, I know who I am, I live who I am and if my personal demeanor does not meet with your approval, that's your problem to deal with. If you can not, then stay away from my posted comments. It's your choice, I want change for you nor anyone else, I am, my own man, have always been and will always be.
As to the greatness of Ronald Reagan. He was nothing more than a boastful idiot who took undue and unearned credit for the fall of the USSR. When what he actually did was to come within a breath of provoking the USSR into a third world war, a war which would have doomed the world in a nuclear holocaust.
Further and more importantly, in a telephone poll held on February 1st (I personally hate polls since to me, polls are only a snapshot in time) of 1000 Kentuckians in McConnells home district, only 17% of those polled said that they were planning to vote for him in the 2014 primary election.
It would seem that when Senator McConnell put his support behind the Teapublican movement after the 2010 elections, it may well turnout to be a very bad slip in judgement in the long run. Since he is more than likely going to loose to a Teapublican challenger in the next Republican primary election.
This should be a warning to other elected Republican politicians, as well as a good example to the Republican Party it's self, that the Teapublicans are not their allies, but are essentially more of a political enemy and pose more of a danger to the party's future wellfare than the Democrats and/or the DNC every have.
An adage which fits this scenario, When one reaps the wind, he shall suffer the whirlwind.
They are the Mad Dogs of modern American politics.