Porn Star Won't Run For Senate Because She's A Porn Star
Sad news for any blogger who was hoping for an easy avenue to pageview heaven: porn star Stormy Daniels, a.k.a, Stephanie Clifford, has chosen not to run the U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana against David Vitter. This is also sad news because of her big reason: she is a porn star, and people just don't accept porn stars as anything else other than porn stars.
Her statement was wholly defeatist if not true:
Simply because I did not fit in their mold of what an independent working woman should be, the media and political elite have sought to relegate my sense of civic responsibility to mere sideshow antics.
They did this not simply for the sake of expediency but because to have a woman of my background challenge the core conscripts of our political and social culture is simply too much for a system that holds that only lawyers and insurance salesmen are qualified to lead.
Don't forget CEOs and community organizers!
It sounds like she assessed the situation and wanted to run for the purposes of winning, not to get her message out like so many other third party candidates. She's right; the system can't really be gamed for that. Comedian Al Franken was an outsider and somehow won a Senate election, but he gradually weened into political commentary.
And we're always going to remember porn stars for being porn stars. Jenna Jameson could cure Parkinson's tomorrow and her tombstone and she's always going to be "Former adult film actress Jenna Jameson." This is the stigma that goes to being paid handsomely to fuck on camera.
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