Following weeks of private reflection and prayer, I heartily endorse Mrs. Stormy Daniels as the next junior Senator from the Great State of Louisiana.
“I will be taking a big pay cut,” said Daniels of the $170k per annum job, showing the plucky American confidence that emphasizes national service over personal gain. She also showed her breasts.
Eligible by virtue of her 30th birthday on March 17 and her U.S. citizenship, the Baton Rouge native is legally changing her name to the one known by millions of porn fans, members of the U.S. Postal Service, and Judd Apatow, and beginning her campaign in earnest next week.
Daniels will be talking with voters and gathering signatures in Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans for the race to succeed David Vitter, who in 2007 was named as a client of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, otherwise known as the D.C. Madam.
Daniels was informed of the website DraftStormy.com and at first was upset.
“I called them and said, ‘You think you might have checked with me first?'” she said.
Indeed, her husband and publicist Mike Moz said the professionally designed web site (the domain was registered last November) caught the two by surprise.
“They put a lot of thought behind it,” he said, stressing that neither he nor Daniels nor Wicked Pictures, for whom Daniels is a contract performer and director, had anything to do with the site.
But what seemed at first like a joke and an attempt by his detractors to discredit the morally hypocritical Vitter by running a porn star against him, Daniels and her team began to take seriously.
“The idea anyway was to not perform anymore,” Daniels said this week on the set of Tormented, where she plays a sexier Alice in Wonderland in one scene. “This will be one of my last movies, and then I’ll be going behind the camera full-time.”
Daniels’ interest in the Draft Stormy stunt has actually helped the site gain momentum. Already comfortable showing up in places porn stars usually aren’t seen, such as ABC News and the National Press Club (promoting Internet Safety), Daniels, Moz, and Wicked executive Joy King have already positioned Stormy as the sexy intellectual alternative to most porn stars.
The web site features on its “Issues” page talking points that are similar to those brought up at adult business conferences: “It’s the Economy, Sexy,” intellectual poroperty concerns, and methods of preventing minors from accessing online adult material.
To be clear, Daniels and the web site are still independent of each other. Registered in Pennsylvania, DraftStormy.com runs a disclaimer on each page indicating that it is “not authorized by Stormy Daniels or Wicked Pictures.”
But at this point, with Daniels throwing some effort into the campaign (and URLs like “StormyforSenate.com” and “Stormy2010.com” redirecting to the DraftStormy site), it is only a matter of time before the Swiftboating of Republican Vitter becomes a legitimate grassroots contender.
For those who might think Daniels incapable of handling spiky members of Congress, public relations, or understanding working class economics, see how a dancer from Louisiana established herself in the adult industry at a time when the competition was fiercest. (And don’t try to suggest that she is biting off something she can’t chew, because that would be too easy.)
And maybe she was joking when she said it, but the following claim would put Daniels at the top half percentile of a very high heap and is itself a tremendous achievement:
“I am the biggest bitch in the porn industry,” Daniels said.
(And she’s got to be better qualified than Roland Burris.)
Daniels had long been courting my endorsement, marveling at how on this very website I predicted the victory of then-longshot Barack Obama back in January of 2007.
But I was not like Rod Blagojevich and Daniels was professional: None of her patented B(ayou)Js were demanded or delivered (even though it was a Wicked set).
- See the Tormented gallery here.
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Anus in Wonderland; Gram’s Index; Stormy – but everything will be fine – on Operation Desert Stormy
See also: Draft Stormy, Stormy Daniels
Interesting to see that she’s embracing this. When she announced she was leaving porn via Twitter, I was a bit disappointed (the tone of her message didn’t help much – “I am beyond ready to retire from porn…it’s a dying industry anyway. Time for something new and better!!!”), but I hope it works out for her.
Interesting. While I don’t think she’d win (unless she was running directly against Vitter… in which case she might just do it, depending on the “morals” of the Louisiana citizenry)… if she did win, her lack of experience would be a detriment, I do believe. Still, she’s intelligent enough to pull it off.
A dead cockroach would be better than Roland Burris……
And now I apologize to all the cockroaches…….