Having decided against running for U.S. Senate against Sen. Mitch McConnell, celebrity actress Ashley Judd can now reflect on why her decision not to run was most likely a good one.

Mother Jones released a tape recording of a private meeting between the Kentucky Senator and his campaign aides. Discussed at the meeting were different attack plans should Judd decide to run. The aides and McConnell share a couple of laughs as they discuss some of Judd’s prior writings.

I think too she’s clearly sort of anti-sort-of-traditional American family. […] She described having children as selfish, and she thinks it’s unconscionable to breed … She also is critical of, of fathers giving away their daughters in marriage ceremonies. She says it’s a common vestige of male dominion over a women’s reproductive status when her father gives her away at a wedding.

Via Politico McConnell’s campaign manager Jesse Benton released a statement saying:

We’ve always said the Left will stop at nothing to attack Sen. McConnell, but Nixonian tactics to bug campaign headquarters is above and beyond

UPDATE: 11:45 am