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Marilyn Monroe For Senate

Salon has a pretty good article up on Ashley's chances:

This is not to say that Judd, or whomever Democrats nominate, will have no chance against McConnell. He’s not that popular with Kentucky voters, he had a close call in 2008, and while the state has become reliably Republican at the presidential level, it still has a Democratic tradition and it’s hardly impossible for a Democrat to win a statewide race. But there are remarkably few recent examples of Senate incumbents losing in states where their party enjoys the kind of edge Republicans now have in Kentucky. And Judd figures to be a particularly ripe target for the GOP, given the very liberal views she’s already staked out. It would probably take a huge Democratic tide or an indictment of McConnell (or maybe both?) to propel her to victory in ’14. And that’s a lot to hope for.
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I agree that she will excel in drawing contributions and force the RNC and the Conservative PACs to spend more than they had hoped to in that race. But fundamentally it's the voters that decide, and she doesn't exactly fit the mold for Kentucky politics.

It will be good to watch McConnell on the defensive though. She may not defeat him, but she will undoubtedly cripple him. She makes many men weak at the knees without even trying.
 
She is a big UK basketball fan. That alone may get some in Kentucky to not dismiss her immediately.

She should try to guest star on Breaking Bad and see if she can get the meth vote.

I don't think she has a shot, but it would be interesting.
 
Spindrift said:
She is a big UK basketball fan. That alone may get some in Kentucky to not dismiss her immediately.
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I grew up in Kentucky and the power of the Big Blue Nation should not be underestimated. I don't think Mitch has been to Rupp Arena in quite a while. Ashley doesn't sit in a luxury box. She sits near the floor.
 
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BenBurch said:
"No accounting for taste."

Literally;

In tastes there can be no dispute.
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Well, to each his own - but seeing as Ashley Judd is alive and hot and Marilyn Monroe is decades dead, he's welcome to the latter.
 
Bill Clinton and others pushing for a non-Hollywood candidate:

Democratic heavy hitters — including Bill Clinton — are quietly trying to woo a new candidate to jump into the race to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, even as actress Ashley Judd is taking steps toward launching a star-studded campaign of her own.

With fears growing in some Democratic quarters over Judd’s potential candidacy, some prominent Democrats in the Bluegrass State are beginning to set their sights on 34-year-old Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky secretary of state. Among Grimes’s attributes: She lacks political baggage since she’s served barely a year in office, and she hails from a well-connected family influential in Kentucky Democratic politics. But it’s not at all certain if she’ll jump into the race.
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You know how it is; neither woman is likely to win in an off-year election in a state where Obama lost by over 22 percentage points; this strikes me as a classic "dead girl, live boy" race (as in the incumbent is unlikely to lose unless he is found in bed with one of the above).
 
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