Bill Clinton was elected president by telling American voters, “I feel your pain.” Mike Huckabee yesterday told Kim Davis he would share her pain—or bear her pain in her place.
At a rally outside her jail cell in Grayson, Kentucky—just moments after Kim Davis was released—the former Arkansas governor said if Davis is ordered back to jail, Huckabee will serve her sentence.
Addressing U.S. District Judge David Bunning, who ordered Davis into jail for “contempt of court,” Huckabee said, “Let Kim go!”
“If you have to put someone in jail, I volunteer to go. Let me go. Lock me up, if you think that is how freedom is best served,” he said.
Huckabee said he is “willing to spend the next eight years in the White House leading this country” or “willing to spend the next eight years in jail.”
“But I’m not willing to spend one day under the tyranny of people who believe they can take our liberty and conscience away!” he told the crowd, which he estimated at 5,000 people.
The crowd was also addressed by the Benham brothers, Tony Perkins, Pastor Rick Scarborough, Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin and National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown.
