Ky. voters react as Judd's liberal positions are detailed

WHAS-11 ^ | 2/26/2012 | Joe Arnold

[Republican Wildcat]

LOUISVILLE, Ky (WHAS11) -- After two decades in front of the camera as an actress and more recently as an activist, Ashley Judd has been unguarded in her comments -- a candor which might cause complications if she runs for U.S. Senate from Kentucky.

As Judd inches closer to a decision, her outspoken nature is yielding decades of pointed and controversial comments which Kentucky Democratic strategists concede are a gold mine for the campaign of potential opponent, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R).

Judd's essays and speeches are easily accessible on her website.

In one, she criticized the tradition of a father giving away a daughter at a wedding - which she calls "a common vestige of male dominion over a woman's reproductive status."

Judd also criticized the practice of women taking the name of their husband's families "into which they have effectively been traded."

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Judd also wrote that Christianity legitimizes male power over women.

In 2006, when Judd was asked about her decision not to have children, she was quoted as saying "it's unconscionable to breed, with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries."

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Conservative Kentucky Democrats are also concerned Judd's political views are out of step with most Kentucky voters and may be a drag on down ballot races if Judd tops the Democratic ticket in 2014.

Judd is a passionate advocate for President Barack Obama who garnered only 38 percent of Kentucky's popular vote in the 2012 election.

In a speech to Tennessee Democrats, Judd complained that the Democratic Party was not liberal enough.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I would be very surprised if Ashley Judd has a chance without widespread vote fraud.

As would I but the Dems have upped their game and will be running all their ops that worked so well in the election of 2012 in this one as a further test. Bank on it. She is too big a Liberal prize to just hang out to dry.