California native and current Tennessee resident Ashley Judd, reportedly readying a run against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in her onetime home of Kentucky, used her 2012 biography to ridicule former President Ronald Reagan as “right-wing icon,” call the media simple minded and scoffed at those making their “own” babies when they could chose orphans instead.

“I now make my home in rural middle Tennessee,” she writes in paperback “All That is Bitter & Sweet,” one of the passages that Republicans in Kentucky are collecting as they prepare to portray the liberal actress as out of touch with the Bluegrass State.