" It's no party ! "

"When it comes to registering voters, the two major parties can only look in envy -- and dismay -- at the swelling ranks of unaffiliated voters..." Washington Post report

unenrolled voters are independent voters

Sick of it?

Are slogans, bullet points and rhetoric ruining your freedom and your pursuit of happiness, ultimately compromising your place in the American Dream?

Do you see political correctness as a tool to dumb down opposition and real constructive movement in your community, state and government.

Are you indignant about being referred to as a base.

Do you wince when you hear terms like right and left, conservative and liberal and see good ideas sabotaged because they are attached to those names?.

Do you see partisan politics standing in the way of getting the most simple things done?

Sick of pandering, token visits and empty promises.

If you feel one party fails to stand up while another needs to stand down

Then its time to CUT your ties to political parties and RUN to the voters registration office and make a stand. It’s time to put your FLIP FLOPs on, head for dry land and let the parties sink or swim without you.

If your government’s eyes are not on the ball, it’s time to put your leaders on the line to answer questions and fulfill promises.

Look at their record and make them work to win your vote.
Not by their party but by their actions and effectivemness.

Exercise your independence. Make your move...
It’s about the only PATRIOTIC thing left to do.


and while youre at it...
read this ; the Constitution, a good read.
If you've read it re-read it.
Suggest reading it to say.... legislators and congressmen and women. They'll get a kick out of it. (hopefully)

Some thoughts...

"When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward."
—Bill Clinton

"You dont own me"
--- Leslie Gore

"To preserve our independence... We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.".
Thomas Jefferson

"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
Charles De Gaulle

"I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it." --Sen. John Kerry, on voting against a military funding bill for U.S. troops in Iraq

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."— George Bush

The Party's Over for a Betrayed Republican
"We're poisoning our planet through gluttony and ignorance. We're teetering on the brink of self-inflicted insolvency. We're selfishly and needlessly sacrificing the best of a generation. And we're lying about it.
While it has compiled this record of failure and deception, the party which I'm leaving today has spent its time, energy and political capital trying to save Terri Schiavo, battling the threat of single-sex unions, fighting medical marijuana and physician-assisted suicide, manufacturing political crises over presidential nominees, and selling privatized Social Security to an America that isn't buying. We fiddle while Rome burns. Enough is enough. I quit."

(James Chaney, attorney in private practice for more than 20 years, has been a registered Republican since 1980. This is an excerpt from his Guest Viewpoint in The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon, 6/26/05)

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter To Francis Hopkinson, Paris Mar. 13, 1789