We Can Start The Weekend Early!
There’s been so much news today that I thought this might slip under the radar and since it’s golden and shiny and covered in glitter, I did not want you to miss it.
A county clerk in Kentucky who was briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples said on Friday that she and her family have switched to the Republican Party because the Democrats no longer represented them.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, 50, who has said her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian prevent her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, said they had changed parties last week. She was a long-time Democrat in eastern Kentucky.
That was a load off Democrat’s back, Honey. Kim, y’all have fun with Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and every southern family with a washing machine on the front porch. Let’s see how long it’s gonna be until they invite you to the country club, sweetie. Don’t hold your breath now, ya hear?
Don’t let… No, DO let the door hit your butt on the way out. I’m sure you’ll be happier over there with your own kind.
1Oh, now. She’s headlining at the Value Voters Summit today so she had to switch. Admission standards y’see. I hear she’ll be getting a tasteful “award”. Maybe something from QVC.
2Why isn’t this dizzy B@@@@ in jail where she belongs? She has admitted altering licenses so they are invalid. The judge told her no and she did it anyway.
I remember Susan MacDougal spending months in jail for contempt of weasel Ken Starr-she refused to lie about the Clintons and Starr let her rot for months.
3Raised the IQ of both parties.
4Never could understand why she registered Democrat in the first place. She’s a born again Repug!
5GOP is welcome to her–a more natural fit for her retrograde ideas. Hope they will be very happy together. “Values” voters, indeed!
6Aside from carrying out her official duties in her home state, I am well and truly indifferent to anything else she does or does not due.
I do hope her 15 minutes are just about up.
7The st00pid, it burns with this moron. Old Kimmie probably thought the Dixiecrats were alive and well. Sit down, hold your breath and wait for Strom Thurmond to be the Democratic presidential nominee, Kimmie.
Micr, yeah buddy, let her minutes lapse and let her months in jail begin. So many ways to describe her; none likely to pass the Mama test.
8Davis is just another Dixiecrat switching parties.
9I thought she WAS an R.
10Corinne Sabo, until the switch Kimmie was registered as a “D” for voting purposes. She missed the memo on Strom’s death and the death of the Dixiecrats. Huckster-Jeebus gave her a hug and toted her on over to her new party or old party, depending on when one received the thug meme regarding the ‘southern strategy.’
Baby chicks is a mess. But thankfully she is now correctly labelled as their mess.
11thank the Goddess.
12The Merry Martyr of Morehead was a D because a lot of people vote local offices that way because their Pap & Gran Pap did. The local office holders win by fighting to see who can get on the D line. In Kentucky they are as strict with party designations as they are with oral hygiene and the bounds of consanguinity.
13A bigoted ahole,who does not do her job, leaves to join a bigger bunch of bigoted aholes who also don’t do their jobs. And the down side is?
14Yes, she is a hypocrite, and damn straight she’s a hater and a bigot. But y’all don’t know the South if you don’t get why she’s always been a Dem.
Everybody in that part of the country – near West Virginia, and hard-core Appalachia – was a Democrat, going back to Roosevelt anyway. Lots of miners in everybody’s haystack. Now though, Davis had no reason to declare anything or anybody, because local officials don’t run as Party folks. She just never got around to changing her registration.
I agree with Paul, above, too, that she probably had to swear an oath of allegiance to cry and holler at the Values Voters Forum this weekend.
15Thank you JEEEEEEEEEE-zus!
16Thanks, JJ, for you great posts! I truly appreciate it.
17The PARTY no longer represents HER?
I think we’ve got the core of this wench holding a public service job, right there.
18She’s a good woman. Just misunderstood, that’s all. She couldn’t get that 7 figure book signing as a Democrat.
I’m just happy she won’t have to subsist on her paltry $80,000/yr income in severely overpriced Kentucky. Maybe now she can afford to buy the fashion sense she so obviously lacks.
19The GOP will buy her a red suit and a flag pin.
20https://soundcloud.com/rockymountainmike/i-am-a-clerk-of-constant-drama
Kim Is a idiot who will go away very soon.
21She and Goober can get the GOP discount when they get their hoods and robes cleaned.
22Linda Phipps — I believe you’re probably right, but it’s gonna take a whole lot of money and more time than most of us have left to turn her into the next Sarah Palin. She’s already got the dumb part down, but she’s truly lacking in the beauty-pageant-wave department.
Mike Huckabee and the repubs are more than welcome to her and her family.
23Gee, I wonder if she voted the straight Democratic ticket. I suspect she was pure DINO.
24I would like to see the media concentrate more on the issue of separation of church and state instead of portraying Kim Davis as a story–and a heroine of religious freedom–what bunk!!
25The judge needs to throw her back in jail and hopefully, the Kentucky state legislature will impeach her in the next session–there should be an easier way to get rid of the likes of her–refusing to do the job she is paid to do by the taxpayers ($80 K per year)–hey, is she still getting her salary when at the Values summit? Has anyone wondered how she got this mega Christian law firm to represent her in all this?? This whole thing smells of a deliberate set up to me. Glad she now belongs to the Repugnants!!
Need a little help here, folks. As a lapsed member of the Tribe, am not current in all things wacky fundamentalist. Is there a distinction between Evangelical and Apostolic Christians of which I should be aware? Then there are the Dominionists whom I do beware.
26I suspect whatever political party she embraces, she will continue to be a “media ‘ho”.
27Folks: EVERYBODY in Kentucky who’s a redneck, ie most of us, are registered Democrats. Because our Daddies were and their Daddies were, and that’s because the republicans were a bunch of commie libruls who freed the slaves. It’s a Civil War thing. Democrat=Confederate. In many Kentucky Counties, the county race is decided in the Democratic primary,’cause that’s the only election where there are opposing candidates. Many counties went for McGovern for Chrissakes! The media making a deal out of the fact that she was a rethuglican, is as misguided as the idiots that point out that the democrats opposed freeing slaves. Different times, folks, different times. Except in the mountains.
28She made the right choice, bless her heart.
29@pkm
I’ll give it a shot!
I think of apostolic christian fundys as interpreting the Bible literally. Think Leviticus here. Also Genesis. And all that goes with that mind set.
Evangelical Christian fundys want everyone to be “born again”. With “born again” meaning whatever it means to each evangelical. I also associate evangelicals with the deep South of the 1930s.
Some of the better prepared theologians might have clearer contrasts and comparisons.
30Micr thank you for wading into the insanity and providing insight. As a lapsed member of the Tribe, I still recall the many renditions of Judaism. We differed, but to my recollection no one denied that we were all Jews. Whereas some Christians and Muslims are confusing to me in their denial of each other. A few Christians would say that Mormons and Catholics are not Christians. While the Sunni, Shia and other Muslim sects deny each other their faith.
My best hope? Peace of sorts finally arrived to Ireland amongst the religious factions. Jimmy Carter and a stoppage of sending them arms had a huge influence. Maybe I am simple minded to think removing arms from the equation will at least settle some of the tensions in the Middle East. But I hope.
As for our radical Xtians at home, I think removing their tax exemptions would take some wind out of their misguided sails. After all, they are mostly Republicons, so taxes would bite them where their brains are.
31@PKM
32Amen to the taxes. They seem to think they can force their beliefs on everyone and use the government to do it (specifically forbidden in the Constitution). Yet when anyone brings up taxing this multi-BILLION dollar a year industry they start screaming separation of church and state (which was never even remotely implied in the Constitution).
The sad part is that these idiots are insisting everyone run their lives according to the Bible (historical parables at best) while using the Constitution (written to protect the rights of all, and, according to the 9th amendment, never at the cost of others rights) to allow them to do it.
The biggest problem is that they “interpret” the Constitution the way they do the Bible. Picking and choosing what they want and relegating the rest as filler. I have met few repugs that have ever read the document at all, but are happy to tell you that it says we are all xtians and all the white people can have all the guns they want, with no restrictions or regulation (the 3rd word in the actual 2nd amendment).
I guess this is why they stress the need for illiteracy and deny folks education.
Sorry for the rant. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.
@TruelyTexan
We feel your pain. “Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.”
33Micr –
Love it! Where can I get a bumper sticker?
34Well, as I understand she was always a pretend Democrat to get elected.
She should verify that is the TP wing of what used to be a political party with some structure and meaning. Now it is mostly lunatics.
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