You have sometimes heard Mike Huckabee and others refer to her as a 'Kentucky Democart'-as fact had some sort of significance.
Now she tells us she is a Democrat no more-the party left her years ago she declares.
"Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis said she and her family have left the Democratic Party because "the Democratic Party left us a long time ago," according to a Friday report from Reuters."
Now she tells us she is a Democrat no more-the party left her years ago she declares.
"Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis said she and her family have left the Democratic Party because "the Democratic Party left us a long time ago," according to a Friday report from Reuters."
"My husband and I had talked about it for quite a while and we came to the conclusion that the Democratic Party left us a long time ago, so why were we hanging on?" Davis told Reuters while she was in Washington, D.C. to speak at the Values Voter Summit.
"Davis was jailed for five days when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in her county and didn't comply with a federal judge's order to do so."
"Evangelical and hardline Republican presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee rallied around Davis."
"In her latest filing, Davis and her legal team blamed Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat, when he sent a letter to all Kentucky clerks instructing them to issue marriage licenses regardless of gender after the Supreme Court effectively legalized gay marriage."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kim-davis-becoming-republican
Normally the Democrats don't want to lose anyone but you'd guess this might be an exception.
In a way though she shows the normal trajectory of how the South has slowly over 50 years gone Repulican
What's notable about Ms. Davis is it took her this long. It's sort of surprising she only realized that the Democrats aren't opposed to gay marritage like she has now.
But this is how most Democrats became Republican during the Southern Strategy: not on issues so much as prejudices.
It's not that Ms. Davis woke up and decided ending Social Security or Jeb's tax cuts for the rich are the ticket.
No, she just doesn't like some of the recent social changes and the GOP is the party that resists such changes.
In other words for Trumpist reasons not because of anything said by the Club for Growth-that has been attacking Trump for not being a real conservative.
"Davis was jailed for five days when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in her county and didn't comply with a federal judge's order to do so."
"Evangelical and hardline Republican presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee rallied around Davis."
"In her latest filing, Davis and her legal team blamed Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat, when he sent a letter to all Kentucky clerks instructing them to issue marriage licenses regardless of gender after the Supreme Court effectively legalized gay marriage."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kim-davis-becoming-republican
Normally the Democrats don't want to lose anyone but you'd guess this might be an exception.
In a way though she shows the normal trajectory of how the South has slowly over 50 years gone Repulican
What's notable about Ms. Davis is it took her this long. It's sort of surprising she only realized that the Democrats aren't opposed to gay marritage like she has now.
But this is how most Democrats became Republican during the Southern Strategy: not on issues so much as prejudices.
It's not that Ms. Davis woke up and decided ending Social Security or Jeb's tax cuts for the rich are the ticket.
No, she just doesn't like some of the recent social changes and the GOP is the party that resists such changes.
In other words for Trumpist reasons not because of anything said by the Club for Growth-that has been attacking Trump for not being a real conservative.
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