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‘The Dream Is Dead’

Posted on | March 27, 2013 | 27 Comments

Ashley Judd (D-Puffy Face)

So declares Ace of Spades, and connoisseurs of fine sarcasm must join Ace in mourning this tragic news:

The much-rumored 2014 campaign by film star Ashley Judd for the Kentucky seat of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not happen.

No more Puffy Face to mock? No months of endless lunacy as she compares everything to rape? Alas, we have been robbed:

A source close to Judd said that Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes’ interest in potential race made the decision not to run easier. “The timing just wasn’t right,” said the source. …
Democratic Senate strategists have argued that Judd would be a good, if unconventional candidate, pointing to her ability to rival or even eclipse McConnell in fundraising. But McConnell’s path to victory involves savaging his opponent, and Judd’s status as an actress and celebrity would have offered him loads of ammunition.

Loads. Loads and loads. And now . . . nothing.

 

Comments

27 Responses to “‘The Dream Is Dead’”

  1. K-Bob
    March 27th, 2013 @ 6:59 pm

    I feel so let down. It’s like some kind of assault or something.

  2. robertstacymccain
    March 27th, 2013 @ 7:01 pm

    Dare I say … RAPE?

  3. Dan Collins
    March 27th, 2013 @ 7:06 pm

    You’re not going to have Judd to rape around anymore.

  4. John P. Squibob
    March 27th, 2013 @ 7:19 pm

    Puffy face, I love you
    Puffy face, I need you
    My whole world’s wrapped up in you

    When the road I walk seems all uphill
    And the colors in my rainbow turn blue
    You kiss the tears away
    You smile at me and say
    “Puffy face (puffy face) I love you”

    Puffy face, I love you
    Puffy face, I need you
    These are the sweetest words I’ve ever heard
    Puffy face, don’t leave me
    Puffy face, believe me
    My whole world’s wrapped up in you

    And when I hurt your feelings as I sometimes do
    And I say those mean things that we know are not true
    You forgive my childish way
    You hold me close and say
    “Puffy face (puffy face) I love you”

    Puffy face, I love you
    Puffy face, I need you
    These are the sweetest words I’ve ever heard
    Puffy face, don’t leave me
    Puffy face, believe me
    My whole world’s wrapped up in you

    Puffy face, I love you
    Puffy face, I need you

    These are the sweetest words I’ve ever heard
    Puffy face, don’t leave me

    With apologies to Brian Blade, Greg Cohen, Adam Dornblum, Brian Eno, William Frisell, Jon Hassell and of course, Donna Fargo

  5. K-Bob
    March 27th, 2013 @ 7:27 pm

    Heh.

  6. JeffS
    March 27th, 2013 @ 7:49 pm

    Wait. They actually used the word “ammunition”?

    GUNISTS!

  7. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 27th, 2013 @ 8:13 pm
  8. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 27th, 2013 @ 8:16 pm

    You need to put that to music and do a youtube. It would go viral.

  9. richard mcenroe
    March 27th, 2013 @ 8:33 pm

    Spunky KY Dems rally around hot new candidate! http://tinyurl.com/dynn7g4

  10. Richard Reed
    March 27th, 2013 @ 8:42 pm

    Richard Reed liked this on Facebook.

  11. Steve Skubinna
    March 27th, 2013 @ 8:56 pm

    Damn it. Now I know how the Jews in Auschwitz felt. This is just like being trapped in the WTC on 9/11.

  12. Doug E. Fresh
    March 27th, 2013 @ 9:00 pm

    Puffy Face? What about Rotten Smile McCain? Was there really a feud with Stranahan over who had the better smile once Lee got his new dentures? Gross, all around!

  13. Michelle Malkin » Ashley Judd won’t run for senate; Everybody except the Democratic Party kind of upset about it
    March 27th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm

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  14. Scott
    March 27th, 2013 @ 9:17 pm

    What did she have done to her mug?

  15. Gerard Vanderleun
    March 27th, 2013 @ 10:34 pm

    As we have it above she has taken on “Loads. Loads and loads.”

  16. Delaney Coffer
    March 27th, 2013 @ 10:40 pm

    She sure doesn’t have a pretty mouth.

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  21. Lightwave
    March 28th, 2013 @ 7:12 am

    So instead of Judd, we get Alison Lundergan Grimes, current Kentucky Secretary of State and daughter of Clinton buddy and former Democrat party chair Jerry Lundergan.

    Gotta love cronyism at its finest.

  22. rustypaladin
    March 28th, 2013 @ 9:55 am

    You realize this is our own fault. We should have pulled a McCaskill on her. Talked about how worried we were about her fundraising abilities and how she was the most viable liberal available. Now the comedy gold is gone.

  23. Ashley Judd just raped me! | The Daley Gator
    March 28th, 2013 @ 10:35 am

    […] Of course, I am being dramatic, kinda like Ashley herself when she compares EVERYTHING to rape, but I do feel violated by her decision NOT to seek the Senate seat from Kentucky. I mean think of all that blogging gold that has been taken from me? Ashley Judd was not just a Tree of Low hanging Blogging Fruit, she was a grove! Now all that is gone what will I do? And what of Stacy McCain, who has just seen his dream die? […]

  24. Anil Petra
    March 28th, 2013 @ 12:34 pm

    Congratulations to the “Bone Collector” Karl Rove and the rest of the gang at American Crossroads.

    Knockout punch!

  25. Bob Belvedere
    March 28th, 2013 @ 1:33 pm

    Bingo!

  26. Bob Belvedere
    March 28th, 2013 @ 1:34 pm

    You left off the /sarc command [I hope].

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    March 28th, 2013 @ 6:21 pm

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