Kim Davis is a Democrat!

[ButterflyBlood]

That...is not something I saw coming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis_(county_clerk)

Will she resign the party as well as her office?

[Bluzmann57]

1. She's still a bigoted hypocrite

But I imagine fox noise will have a field day with the fact she's an alleged Democrat.
As far as an answer to your question- One can only hope so.

[yeoman6987]

7. Alleged democrat?

How does that work? She was voted in a red state as a democratic winner. Hardly anything alleged in that. We got screwed on this one. We own it. Horrible as it is.

[Kingofalldems]

48. 'We' don't own anything in this matter.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. In eastern Ky

Where most Dems are to the right of national GOP.
Same situation next door here in WV

[Fred Sanders]

9. Kentucky elected Democrat means slightly left of Attilla the Hun. Religious extremism is pandemic.

[TheKentuckian]

28. Not necessarily true. Beshear is too conservative for my taste but nothing out of line with other

"centrist" types.

Same goes for Conway who is likely to succeed him. My Congressman, John Yarmuth is a pretty damn good liberal not even of the "centrist" variety but actually a pretty strong progressive that seldom if ever pisses me off with a cruddy vote and I'm fairly unforgiving of conservatism even the corporate kind.

Some fit your description like this fool but if you can stomach the Turd Way then our Democratic statewide elected officials should be just dandy.

She is likely a relic from the not too distant time that essentially only Democrats could get elected in the state and the entire game was the primary regardless of ideology.

[Fred Sanders]

30. Gerrymandered districts means a Democrat or two, of course, but there should be many more!

Whatever happened to proportional representation or did that go out with limited and open campaign donations?

[TheKentuckian]

34. I'm personally big on it but the party has been silent as a tomb on it that I'm aware of since the

primary wrapped up in 2008. Sort of like doing something about the Republican owned voting machines became fringe talk.

[spanone]

3. it makes no difference at all what party she affiliates with.

[stopbush]

4. I think everyone already knew that. It's not like the media has been hiding the fact.

The salient point is where her being a D comes in her set of priorities.

Obviously, her #1 priority is to treat make believe (the Buy-bull, Xianity) like it's a fact that trumps reality (er, reality), which means that being a Xian trumps all. Being a D? I'm guessing it's way down the list. She most likely ran for the office as a D because that's what her mom was when she held the office for years and it made political sense to run as a D herself.

[jberryhill]

5. Many southerners are, for purely historical reasons

Stick around the 3:08 mark, and see who this person supports for president:

[riversedge]

11. I shake my head!!

[jberryhill]

12. When that video made the rounds in 2008...

A lot of people watched some of it and said things like "typical Republican".

She's not a Republican at all.

[riversedge]

20. i never saw it and rather

wished I had not now. I feel pity--for her.

[Solly Mack]

6. Being a registered Democrat doesn't mean you're not a bigot.

That fact shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.


Disappointing, yes. Surprising, no.

[RKP5637]

26. Yep, I know some democrats that are totally bigots. n/t

[Rex]

8. Meet the Dixiecrats. A sad holdover from the 1950s.

I am sorry you have to find out this way that some Dems are nothing more than DINOs.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Every elected official in her county is a Democrat, except the Jailer. Hehe.

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/Rowan/53808/146149/en/summary.html#

[PeaceNikki]

13. There are bigots on this side of the aisle, too. Some even post here.

[lpbk2713]

14. Her donations will drop off if that gets around.

...

[B Calm]

15. Maybe it was the only way this republican could win a local office in

a strong democratic county. . .

[PeaceNikki]

17. The teabagger Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke runs as a Democrat, too.

But every position he takes and every word he says is the polar opposite of our party.

[B Calm]

19. It happens a lot in local elections.

[riversedge]

22. yuk. He is a piece of crap!

[PeaceNikki]

23. Crap has asked you to cease and desist from comparing that fuckhead to it.

[riversedge]

25. Chuckle.

In solidarity

[JI7]

16. there are more registered democrats in Kentucky but its mostly local

Politics where dems are the old southern conservative types

I believe most are registered indie and 2nd highest is dems and reps 3rd.

[yuiyoshida]

18. HEY!! I can not see this woman voting for Hillary or Bernie..at all!

Bet she votes for Huckabee or RAND PAUL.

[LostOne4Ever]

21. In name only (nt)

[whatthehey]

24. As I've said before, 53-38 D registration, 38-60 D voting

Which means that approximately 30% (15/53) of KY Democrats are Republican voters, and they are heavily, massively, weighted to this region and this religiosity. A Louisville area Dem is generally a Dem. East of Lexington? Toss a coin.

Registration here is often a familial tradition especially among the political set, not a staked place on the ideological spectrum.

[Matariki]

27. Yes. And the difference between us and Republicans

is that we condemn asshat bigots even if they happen to have a 'D' behind their name. Instead of doubling down and circling the wagons.

It's called Integrity.

[AngryAmish]

29. Any politician who has ever held an anti gay marriage stance is unelectable

Should never even be allowed in a primary. This is 2015, folks.

[former9thward]

43. Obama is unelectable?

I'm pretty sure there are alot of offices he could get elected to.

[dhill926]

31. that is one big ass tent we've got...

[madinmaryland]

32. Democrat In Name Only. nt

[rockfordfile]

33. Her actions show otherwise

You can say anything but this bigots actions show otherwise. Just a typical conservative republican extremist.

[Warpy]

35. No, but I'll bet she votes Republican

Both my parents voted the opposite of the parties they were registered in. A lot of people out there are "legacy" registrants, following their parents and the larger culture into one party or another.

[phleshdef]

36. In Appalachia, Democrat means something very different.

I grew up in Southern WV and I can attest to that.

[Kilgore]

38. I'm a west coast guy and don't understand

Not trying to bait you, its just that I have heard that comment before and don't know what it means.

[phleshdef]

42. Well its part of the Bible belt.

So you have a lot of social Conservatives... at the same time, its coal country, which means theres a deep regard for Unions. So you have a lot of Democrats in Appalachia that are Democrats because of the history of the Democratic party supporting the UMWA and such.

Also, you are talking about a region with a lot of rampant poverty... social safety nets are life's blood in some area.

[Lee-Lee]

45. It is common here in NC too for many reasons

After the Civil War the democratic party had a lock hold on every level of government. That has long held, as have family traditions.

The Democrats of old and the GOP have swapped political sides of the spectrum, but in local areas the local party registrations and powers haven't made than swap in many cases. Voters would vote for the R in national elections but keep voting D in state and local.

Until recently, in the last 2 decades and some places much later, in NC you had to be registered as a Democrat to get any kind of state and most local municipal jobs. It was an open secret if you wanted to be a State Trooper or DMV law enforcement you had best be a registered Democrat. In fact the DMV enforcement was totally reorganized and put as a part of the Highway Patrol around 2000 after a big scandal broke that started with a small town police chief who liked to wear diapers and dress as a baby for sexual pleasure, and when he got in trouble her rolled over and exposed a whole "pay for play" mess within the agency he had just left where senior officers were telling the officers below them political donations were watched and helped gain promotions. Why was it like that? Because that is how it always was, since the 1870's, and the folks running things in the 80's and 90's were the old racists dixiecrats from the 1950's and 1960's still clinging to their good old boy network.

My dad was told when he moved to an area where there were union textile plants and non-union that if he wanted to be hired and kept on in a union shop he had best have a D by his name when they looked. He still is to this day but votes all over the map. Unions are far weaker here than the UMW were in WV at their heyday so I can imagine that legacy lives on.

Hell, look at NC's history. In 1980 the voters here went for Reagan, and re-elected the mega-bigot Jesse Helms, but in a landslide re-elected a Democrat Governor and General Assembly.

Southern Dems are... complicated. As is the history of the party at state and especially local levels.

[Kilgore]

47. Thanks for explanation

Makes me glad I live in Washington state where you just register to vote. No affiliation questions are asked, and all elections are open.

[Jester Messiah]

37. There is such a thing as a conservative democrat.

I guess some people didn't get the memo about the Southern Strategy.

[blogslut]

39. Fred Phelps was a Democrat.

People can claim to be anything. It's what they do that tells you who they are.

[hobbit709]

40. Not one I would have anything to do with

[moondust]

41. If she doesn't understand the difference between

"God's house" and "Caesar's house," I wouldn't expect too much of her when it comes to differentiating between political parties.

[Texasgal]

44. I don't care what she is.

What she is doing is wrong and against basic civil rights... to me that's worse than simply breaking the law!

[tabasco]

46. So what?

She's a stupid fundie bigot too.