Porn star Stormy Daniels, a busty blonde from Baton Rouge, has caused a sensation during her "listening tour" of Louisiana this week by announcing a possible run for the US Senate in 2010.
Her target: Republican Senator David Vitter, the family values crusader, whose number turned up in the DC Madam's notorious little black book. "Those of you who don't know who I am," she told the lunch crowd at a Baton Rouge eatery, "I'd suggest that you don't Google that until you get home from work."
Daniels, 30, says it's a dirty job, but she'll take the plunge if she finds enough support for pushing Vitter of his Senate pedestal. "I have never said that I'm the best person for the job. I absolutely am not," the New York Daily News quoted her as telling WVLA-TV in Baton Rouge.
"I just think I'm a better choice than the senator they already have," she added. Daniels, who hasn't picked a party yet, has some contorted positions. She opposes the stimulus, hopes to rid the internet of child porn, would nix the income tax in favor of raising sales taxes and supports bringing troops home from Iraq.
She has suggested her campaign slogan might be "Stormy Daniels: Screwing People Honestly." Vitter is vulnerable. A poll this week found only 30 percent of likely voters would definitely vote to reelect him.
