Posted on 03/07/2013 4:51:45 AM PST by Moseley
Republicans must win the U.S. Senate in 2014. Yet Democrats are hoping Ashley Judd can appeal to the same shallow voters who re-elected Barack Obama. Judd is only 9 percentage points behind Mitch McConnell, according to a Republican polling firm Harper Polling. At this early stage of the Kentucky U.S. Senate race, 9 points down means Judd might gain traction over the next 20 months.
Ashley Judds fame comes from a Country-Western musical family. In normal times, a Senate Minority Leader would be immune from serious challenge. But her mother Naomi Judd was born in Ashland, Kentucky. US Senator Al Franken should sober up those who scoff. If a Saturday Night Live comedian can be elected U.S. Senator, Republicans should assume nothing. Celebrity is especially powerful with voters who dont pay attention to politics. Nowadays, people feel they know a celebrity but put less weight on policy and facts. A Country-Western family might rival even a Senate Minority Leader.
Obamas powerful new database system might energize voters who normally wouldnt vote. Republicans have been demonized in an increasingly-partisan mainstream media. Obama fooled low information voters in 2012. Republicans were blindsided.
So on March 1, Ashley Judd gave her first campaign appearance at George Washington University. You know
the kind where candidates pretend theyre not campaigning yet and havent yet announced. But they are building up momentum for later hitting their forehead a la V-8 juice and deciding Hey! I should run for Congress!
Much of her appeal consists of very pleasantly staking out positions that everyone already agrees on conservative and liberal alike and then implying that only enlightened Democrats share her beliefs. This is a typical liberal scam. Liberals demonize conservatives through caricatures. But Judd does it subtly and extremely well. The gullible listener will agree with her and feel those Republicans must be horrible. It wont dawn on the low information voter that Judd is trying to claim as exclusively her own universal values shared by everyone.
We learned that Ashley Judd is todays Jane Fonda. Make no mistake: Judd is a very charismatic, attractive, well-spoken, polished, and beautiful Hollywood liberal. Often she is a walking cliché of far-left, male-bashing, gender studies, blame-America ideas. But she is very, very good at it. She spouts off details and specifics. You will believe she is well-informed if you dont think about it too much. The empty calories sure go down smooth.
Yet Ashley Judd is brainwashed. She claimed that the average age of women entering into prostitution in this country is 12 years old (4:27 PM on the C-SPAN video) http://www.c-span.org/Events/Actress-Ashley-Judd-Speaks-on-Reproductive-Rights/10737438490/ and all of them are survivors of sexual abuse. An average age of 12 would mean that roughly as many first-time prostitutes are significantly younger than 12 as are prostitutes starting significantly older than 12. So in Ashley Judds view of America, there are 8, 9, 10, and 11 year old prostitutes.
Mineral extraction is abusive in the mineral-rich Congo, as a negative for its economy, Judd believes. (4:27 PM.) True, Judd is fighting mountain top removal strip-mining in Kentucky. But she rejects all coal mining entirely, although vital for Kentucky. In 2011 she blasted Mitt Romney in a tweet: The era of coal plant is over, unacceptable. In 2010 at the National Press Club, Ashley Judd said coal companies
make me feel absolutely and totally crazy.
Ashley Judd appears to have very considerable natural intelligence. But she has chosen to limit herself to only a fashion show of Hollywood clichés, rather than making full use of her obvious smarts.
Ashley Judd argues that women in the military will be raped more often now because women have greater potential for promotion from being in combat. (4:10 PM.) Judds explicit argument was that successful women are raped because of their success, to discourage women from advancing in society and keep women under control. Judd agreed that sexual violence happens a lot in the U.S. military. Judd highlighted the syndrome of military sexual trauma as a major systematic pattern. Judd answered Absolutely, absolutely! Thank you for bringing that up at 4:07 PM.
Kentucky values Christianity. Yet on March 1, Ashley Judd gave a back-handed swipe at Kentuckys Christian religion. She was asked point-blank by student Meredith Waters how to employ her Christian faith in social work (at 3:59 PM). Judd described how she repeatedly fired God upon witnessing difficult circumstances.
Of course everyone struggles with understanding Gods role in the ugly incidents in life. Lifes injustices can be terribly heart-wrenching, distressing and disorienting. But Judd clearly sees God as causing lifes evils, not as the solution to evil caused by humans. And her religion is a program of good works in which God plays little role.
She said she developed a new kind of faith that will work everywhere, because the Christian God is not adequate to help us in the real situations of life. Judds new religion is Whatever works for you, which she explained from a nurses comment that public health is my religion. Judd described how she goes about receiving peoples sacred narrative of their hardships and suffering (evoking a Catholic priests role in hearing confession).
Judd argued that subtle and covert violence are being perpetrated by men (around 4:08 PM on the C-SPAN video). Most people understand subtle as the exact opposite of violence. Covert is mutually exclusive with violence. Judd sees violence against women as the main theme of public health studies. (See 4:26 PM on the tape.) She argues that women have to stick together because their lives depend on it.
Ashley Judd argued that lack of respect for women is an example of gender violence (around 4:07 PM). This is a common feminist scam. A vast spectrum of unrelated experiences are smelted together to create a false narrative of how horrible men are. Hype is seen as necessary to accomplish change. Judd argued that gender violence stretches across a wide spectrum.
Judds speech gave voice to the male-bashing, Andrea Dworkin school of feminism. That is, only men are to blame. Judd believes sexual violence comes from trauma bonding in which female victims are dependent upon the men who abuse them. In fact, crime statistics reveal that women physically attack men more often in domestic violence. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/may/11/20060511-112526-4029r/print/ In the real world, violence is an inexcusable individual failure in which gender is irrelevant. But feminists want to sell violence as a socially-approved cultural construct of systematic patriarchal oppression. Ironically, liberalisms hostility to personal accountability and certain punishment creates the breeding ground for the violence they obsess about.
Judd argued (at 4:14 PM) that male conversations amongst men encourage rape and violence against women. (This author has been mysteriously excluded from those conservations.) A tearful student broke down crying (at 4:11 PM) with the logical result of feminist hysteria, asking How do I keep going? after being convinced that the entire culture is a giant conspiracy against her.
Judd will not be competing for the thoughtful, well-informed voters that Republicans pay attention to. If the Obama machine could identify, contact, and energize misguided voters in Virginia in 2012, Democrats hope that Ashley Judds star power can turn out gullible voters in Kentucky.
Judd has said some silly things. However, she is infinitely more skillful and persuasive in saying nutty things than Republicans are willing to admit. Like Obama, Judd can dish out liberal goofiness and make it sound fabulous. Therefore, she can do more than win one U.S. Senate seat. She can confuse and deceive gullible voters all across the country.
Simply do a search for Ashley Judd Naked. That’s what Mitch has to run against ~
Complete nut case; she’ll never win anything; the Dems should be worried with her.
I always thought she was one of the more physically attractive actresses. I’d never vote for her for public office, though.
Heck, her track record on issues important to our commonwealth is poison to her campaign. She will almost be like an ex-KKK member that claims to have seen the light and now regularly attends NAACP meetings and is a card carrying member.
I use dogpile.
But do you git nekkid?
Ashley Judd appears to have very considerable natural intelligence. But she has chosen to limit herself to only a fashion show of Hollywood clichés, rather than making full use of her obvious smarts.
But do you git nekkid?
I won’t go near Google. I use Bing - good engine and great pictures every day.
Where I work, I’m forced to use Bing unless I type google in the address bar. I tried it for months and found I had to go back to Google. Even though I was comfortable with Bing by then, Google instantly gave me what I wanted quicker and more reliably.
And I really wanted to like bing. Meanwhile, the move from IE to Firefox was easy, and good. I eventually migrate not to what I’m used to, but what meets my needs the best. Bing ain’t it.
What an ignorant piece of work..The one thing that helps me in my every day Christian life is to know idiots like her will not have a place in heaven..Not unless she changes her attitude..
Wow - there are a lot of them. I had no idea....
I"m sure some of that stuff is just funsters sticking her head on other women's bodies, but four bresseses?
If somebody debates her, they should just break out a rendition of “We Saw Your Boobs.”
i dont think those are pictures of her. Most are combinations of her head and some one else’s body.
And the carpet doesn’t match the drapes!
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