GOP Super PAC American Crossroads attacked Ashley Judd in a political ad. She's not even said yes to running for Mitch McConnell's senate seat and already the Teapublicans have their panties in a wad! Judd must pose a serious threat to the good ol' boys network there in Kentucky.
Is it okay to be campaigning against someone who hasn't even announced their candidacy? It doesn't seem like a good use of their $10,000.
The Super PAC criticizes Judd for saying "Tennessee is home." Yeah, she lives in Tennessee. Her sister bought her a house there so they could live close to each other. Sister Wynonna, mother Naomi and Ashley all have homes in Tennessee. She also lived in Scotland. Does that make her less qualified to run for a Kentucky senate seat? Ashley spent nearly all of her grade school years in Kentucky. She grew up there. She went to high school in Kentucky and in Tennessee. And then came back to Kentucky to go to college. Clearly, she's familiar enough with Kentucky to represent its citizens.
Something else getting a lot of air-time from Karl Rove and his GOP machine is the quote from Judd, "I don't know a lot of hillbillies who golf." That quote was taken completely out of context from a speech in 2010. Here's the full text, "On another site they built a golf course," said Judd. "I'm not too keen on reinforcing stereotypes about my people, but I don't know a lot of hillbillies who golf." And further comments she said during that same speech, "I am very proud to be a Kentuckian," said Judd, "and, of the many things my Creator has seen fit to allow me to accomplish, being an eastern Kentuckian, is the simple fact that brings me the most honor, the greatest sense of self, I love and am proud of being a hillbilly."
Don't Republicans ever tire of looking stupid when educated liberals research the facts and call them out publicly?
And since when is supporting your President a bad thing?
Hopefully Ashley Judd sees this as her opportunity (and her duty) to put Mitch McConnell out of a job in 2014.
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Although Kentucky is a state in which the vast majority are more conservative in their political ideology, than liberal, it is still quite possible that any well funded Democrat, with name recognition, may have better odds of defeating Mitch McConnell in the 2014 midterm elections, than at time in the past.
It is further evident that with the present temperment of the voting public towards Sen. McConnell, he is going to need the RNC's support, both financially and with ground troops. But, the elections are a long way off and the mood of the constituency may change in his favor.
When you kooks stop calling conservative voters names and start intelligently and respectfully responding to the issues they support you might win in Kentucky.
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway would be a rock star democrat politician in any swing state. Conway was the perfect candidate to win a vacant seat in Kentucky but instead he lost to a self proclaimed TEA partier that never held public office.
Now you jack-asses think a Hollywood liberal and Al Gore environmentalist can beat McConnell and are calling those who disagree idiots. This explains why government assistant programs are so important to you...
Can't wait.
The jack-ass is the mascot of the democrat party. Wear it with pride and quit whining about it.
Hate the TEA party all you want. I too am disappointed in some of the elements that have tried to tie themselves to it. But they are the entity that castrated Obama who came into office with a filibuster proof super-majority. you sound like a whiner because of it but I refuse to call people names...
Democrats can win national elections with class warfare but they can't win the power to enact all of their policies when there is a referendum on them. It's easy to pander to the huddled masses with finger pointing and robin hood speeches but getting that past the people who have to pay for the promises is another story.
You cannot call any "names" in comments directed toward another Gather member.
I assume this word is OK. I believe the offending word ends with "bagger."
A Teapublican doesn't have any other connotations besides being a member of both the Tea Party and the Republican Party.
Yeah, Hollywood liberals would love to see him out of there.
""Right now 'many' Kentuckians would take anything over him.""
60% of the Kentucky vote went to Romney and 38% went to Obama last November. Yeah, I admit 38% of a state is "many" but not enough to replace McConnell with one of Obama's Hollywood lapdogs.
""(who used to BE real republicans) ""
What's a real republican?
""I still think all members of congress should be paid based on a GDP, Unemployment and SOL (remember that phrase? Standard of living?) algorythm. ""
The TEA party tried to pass a law similar to that. Democrats wouldn't let kit out of committee.
Anybody want to place a wager on Judd becoming a Kentucky senator?
I didn't think so... Hope floats.
That is why they are shocked when they lose.
Delusionary thinking and reasoning is the state of mind in which Teapublicans and many Libertarians have resided since the election of 2010 and it continues as a main part of their mentality today. It has become for them an irrationally, rational mental state of mind which they mentally employ whenever in their irrational thinking, they wish to reject, blockout and/or to view something in the opposit realm than which it actually exist.
As such, they have mentally rejected the idea/thought that there is anyone who would or even could, possibly disagree with their analogy of any situation and/or their position on an issue under/of discussion.