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Bill Clinton Encourages Both Judd and Challenger in Possible Senate Bid
ABC News ^ | March 22, 2013 | SHUSHANNAH WALSHE

Posted on 03/23/2013 8:44:14 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

Former President Bill Clinton has spoken to both Ashley Judd and Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes about the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky, encouraging them both to take a hard look at the race.

ABC News has learned that Clinton encouraged Judd to enter the race and promised he would help her, according to several Kentucky political sources. That conversation happened sometime between the November election and President Barack Obama's second inauguration.

Earlier this month Clinton met with Grimes, who is also weighing a bid, after he spoke at an event for former Kentucky Sen. Wendell Ford in Owensboro, Ky., according to multiple political sources in the state. Clinton encouraged Grimes to consider taking on McConnell, adding as he did with Judd that he would support her. The conversation was described as "candid" and "frank" with Clinton saying "all options are available" to the 34-year-old secretary of state and that she has "unlimited potential." He did add that "bigger is always better," meaning that the Senate seat would be a better choice than running for the U.S. House in the sixth district or waging a gubernatorial bid in 2015. Both are options Grimes is said to be considering.

The same sources stressed that despite the time gap, Clinton wasn't choosing Grimes over Judd or changing allegiances, but that he expressed encouragement to both, believing it's unlikely that both would enter the race.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: ashleyjudd; electionussenate; grimes; judd; kentucky; lundergangrimes; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; sexualpredator; shushannahwalshe; wendellford

1 posted on 03/23/2013 8:44:14 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat
somebody should tell the old letch the RAT establishment doesn't want the little strumpet...
2 posted on 03/23/2013 8:47:23 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

Bubba would hit either one of them.


3 posted on 03/23/2013 8:50:33 PM PDT by umgud
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To: umgud
in a heartbeat... or a snake, which ever was more readily available at the time
4 posted on 03/23/2013 8:51:55 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I wonder if Judd win’s the election, will Bill Clinton divorce Hillary and marry her?

Why not? He’s hit on a lot of younger women in his illustrious “war on women” career.

Just ask yourself - would you want to be married (chained) to Hillary for the rest of your life?

[If he exercises good Juddment, he’s Kentucky-bound).


5 posted on 03/23/2013 8:52:51 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Republican Wildcat

he just wants to get in judd’s knickers and i’m sure she would let him


6 posted on 03/23/2013 9:13:57 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (We should not fear our government. Our government shoud fear us.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

That’s the first time I’ve ever heard the word “encourage” used in this way. Slick Willy has certainly “encouraged” a lot of women in his time.


7 posted on 03/23/2013 9:54:28 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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Press Helps Obama Campaign Commit Gaffe Over Woman's Question of Ryan in Iowa [re Shushannah Walshe ] by Tom Blumer, October 07, 2012

8 posted on 03/23/2013 10:05:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Hey, Ashley, I’d check Slick Willie’s record on winning endorsements before taking him on his word. He backs more losers than winners.


9 posted on 03/23/2013 10:10:40 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: OrangeHoof
Reports are that Clinton told Judd to meet him in a Little Rock hotel, the Paula Jones suite, and that he would see which way things pointed.

Meanwhile, Hillary is yucking it up with Anthony Weiner's (Muslim Brotherhood) wife. Working on cover stories for her latest betrayal of the United States since Beghazi.

10 posted on 03/23/2013 11:12:55 PM PDT by CT (Obama is the product of a shiftless press, LoFoVo, and the conquest of Soviet style public education)
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To: CT
Did Clinton really say he'd take a "hard look" at the race?

You can't make this s**t up.

11 posted on 03/23/2013 11:16:08 PM PDT by CT (Obama is the product of a shiftless press, LoFoVo, and the conquest of Soviet style public education)
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To: OrangeHoof

And Ashley, Slick might give you a nasty STD, to boot.


12 posted on 03/23/2013 11:25:23 PM PDT by laplata
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To: Republican Wildcat
ABC News has learned that Clinton encouraged Judd to enter the race and promised he would help her...

I bet he did!

13 posted on 03/24/2013 2:20:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq He could sure play that axe. RIP anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Both have a decent chance since the Republican party has imploded.


14 posted on 03/24/2013 4:48:01 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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