Yarmuth seems to be pushing her.
He is the local commie from Kentucky. He gets enough votes from the uber-liberal parts of Louisville like the Highlands to keep his seat in the House. But he can not beat Mitch in a statewide Senate race. So he needs Ashley to win the seat first with her star power and then he can slide into or go after Paul’s seat later.
I do not believe Ms. Judd is doing this solely on her own. She is being pushed by local and national politicians to leverage her star power.
They probably figure if they can Al Franken elected Ms. Judd would be a shoe-in. After all, Franken never looked that good in a hockey jersey!
I think a lot of national Dem consultants are pushing for her as well, seeing even a losing Judd for Senate campaign as a hugh cash cow fueled by massive Hollywood donations.
Everything I’ve seen or heard from her indicates she’s little more than a typical vapid Hollywood starlett type that has built a career upon the foundation laid by her mom and sister.
The problem may be restraining the impulse to club her like a baby seal, which would allow the Dems to play the victim card and gain a fair amount of sympathy.
I can’t see Yarmuth running statewide or against Rand Paul, if only for one reason... he’s not a young man. He’ll be 69 when Paul is up for reelection in 2016. That’s too old to embark on a career in the Senate (as the assumption that one needs 3-4 terms in that body to have a career). Poor Alben Barkley tried to return to the Senate when he was 77, dropped dead the following year.
Curiously, Yarmuth used to be a Marlow Cook Republican (ex-Senator). Poor Cook went moonbat and is now a Zerobot in his advanced senility.
Key difference, Minnesota is not Kentucky.
I think they’re just trying to rough up the GOP leader, they know they can’t beat him so rough him up with a gimmick candidate.