Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a longtime Democrat, says she is
switching to the Republican Party because she feels abandoned by Democrats in
her crusade against same-sex marriage.
Davis made the announcement while in Washington, D.C., to
attend the Family Research Council's Value Voters Summit, said Charla Bansley,
a spokeswoman for Liberty Counsel, which represents Davis in her legal battles.
"I've always been a Democrat, but the party left
me," Davis said, according to Bansley.
Yes, the party certainly did leave you and is all the better for it.
A lot of wingnuts love to point out that the slave-loving people of the south were Democrats. Yes. That is true, they definitely were CONSERVATIVE Democrats, and they left the party as soon as the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts were passed by a Democratic president, LBJ. What wingers don't like to hear is that there are CONSERVATIVE Democrats and LIBERAL Democrats, just as once there were LIBERAL Republicans (none exist that I know of, they've been chased out of the party), and the GOP is now run by EXTREME CONSERVATIVE Republicans. One thing I do remind people who like to talk about the old south Democrats is this: Whether or not those people were conservative or liberal, what they were and what they are now is constant: SOUTHERNERS. As a cultural group, it doesn't matter if they belong to the Democratic or Republican Party -- what matter most to them is what they share culturally -- being southerners. And the majority of them are Conservative southerners.
ReplyDeleteDavis just joined that group. That's where she really belongs.
Someday some wingnut will point out that she used to be a Democrat. They never tire of noting Robert Byrd was in the KKK. Redemption is possible. Davis is moving in the wrong direction, tho.
DeleteWingnut believe in redemption just for their tribe.
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