Stormy Daniels quits Senate race

It seems money does talk in elections. Big time! David Vitter is a US Senator for Louisiana who got caught up in telephone sex and other seedy stuff. Stormy Daniels is a porn star who has been thinking of running for the senate this year against Vitter, who has $5 million in his campaign coffers. Stormy has considerably less and it is this that has convinced her that she should pack it all in and return to the day job (or is it night job?).

When I first heard of Stormy Daniels and this election bid I thought it had a lot of sense about it. Why not? I'm not in any way in favour of what she does as a "career" but that's not the point here I think. She came forward, admittedly after some student set up a Draft Stormy campaign, because she saw hypocrisy in action. As I said before, if she ever did get to the Senate she may well do a hell of a job. For one thing, she wouldn't be taking any of the nonsense that already festers the place.

I think she should reconsider her position and make a run for it. If the people of Louisiana want transparency over the same old politics then they have a choice. This may be a missed opportunity. Of course, Ms Daniels would have to be a politician above reproach in the Senate. No more moonlighting. I just think someone like her at the heart of political power could obtain results nobody else could. Louisiana folk may think they should persuade her to reconsider.

Stormy Daniels is most talked about candidate

Stormy Daniels is not the shy retiring type. Neither is she a hypocrite. She's bare-faced in your face about her past, unlike her opponents who are not. According to Lanny Keller of the 2The Advocate.com, "many more people have been talking about Stormy Daniels than Charlie Melancon (her opponent). That’s been nothing but good advertising for the, ahem, small businesswoman thinking about moving from cinematic sin into politics".

I'd say that Stormy's chances will be that much more enhanced if she keeps to the straight and narrow in her political quest. That is tell it as it is. No more pork barrelling, no more baloney. Meanwhile David Vitter is reported to be adopting the tortoise approach to politics. That's a wise move. He'll need that hard shell. Taking the role of the hare could just get him jugged in this contest!

Stormy Daniels senate race hots up

When Stormy Daniels, porn star of repute, said she was running for the US Senate many scoffed. They thought it was all a publicity stunt. They admitted that her intended opponent, incumbent David Vitter, was damaged goods but they were sure that the Democrats would find someone to run against him. Daniels, they suggested, was a no-hoper. Her supporters begged to differ and she embarked on a listening tour.

Things are moving up a notch or two. Daniels is still in the race and the name of Democrat Charlie Melancon of Napoleonville is being touted around. Apparently he needs a good bit of touting. From what I can gather, Melancon is someone likely to repeat the same porkbarrel business in the senate. A fight between Vitter as the Republican and Melancon as the Democrat could see Daniels coming up through the middle, in a manner of speaking.

Louisiana is in for some fun and games!

Stormy Daniels keeps on storming!

I was wondering what was happening with the Stormy Daniels campaign for the US Senate seat in Louisiana. I found the Team Stormy site and they report that on July 2nd and 3rd, she swept through Lafayette, Shreveport and Delhi (not the one in India!) on the second leg of her Louisiana listening tour. A video from Stormy’s stop in Shreveport, where she dined with patrons of the world-famous Southfield Grill, is shown below.

Two things I noticed. People are beginning to take her seriously, which suggests honesty and straight talk is preferred by voters over spin and deceit. Second, even though the reporter on this piece suggests Daniels thinks she is not qualified, one wonders what qualified those senators before. Certainly not the ability to think that money grows on trees!

Stormy Daniels storms on in Senate race!

"He ran for the Senate on a family values, anti-sex education platform, and he’s caught with prostitutes. That’s hypocritical. Call me what you will, but you can’t call me a hypocrite." So says the former porn star Stormy Daniels, the proud winner of the 2007 Golden G-string award, who is running in a US Senate race against a Christian family-values Republican shamed after being caught cavorting with prostitutes.

The shamed Republican is David Vitter. He's got his troubles hanging out on the washing line! The Times reports that "few think Ms Daniels can actually beat Mr Vitter next year but her candidacy is an uncomfortable reminder for a Republican party as to why it has been so resoundingly rejected by US voters." But the point is some think she can win. George Bush is now firmly of the opinion that he should never have got mixed up with the so-called Christian right. "Those whackos" he calls them. Is Vitter one of the whackos? And if he's been cavorting with prostitutes what else may he have done? He says he had "asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife" as if God and his wife were in the same room at the time.

The voters of Lousiana have a good choice. Between an incumbent politician who has fallen short and a woman who has apparently nothing to hide. I'd say this. If it's straightforward no-nonsense talk and action you want from your Senate representative, then Stormy Daniels may be your woman.

She'd uncover the hypocrites, cut to the chase and keep the spinners and deceivers at bay. Sounds like the kind of representation I'd go for.

Porn star for US Senate?

There have been some sexually explosive political representatives before, as with Ilona Staller, better known as the Italian porn star and former MP known as La Cicciolina. Now the state of Louisiana is about to get a chance to vote for, or at least draft, a porn star known as Stormy Daniels. She is going up against Senator David Vitter, who himself got into a spot of bother over having his name on a madam's phone list.

She will have to wait until next year before she could swap seats with Vitter in the US Senate, but perhaps she would be an honest addition to the representation spectrum. After all, many on Capitol Hill have been seen out at night. Remember Wilbur Mills? Having her in the Senate may make them think twice. I doubt she would conduct that kind of business inside the pot and they would be reminded all the time that America is not as squeaky clean as they might have us believe!