Time to play hard to get.

[mirrera]

Tomorrow I am off to my town office to re-register as an Independent. Obviously in my desire to be helpful to the Democratic Party and the democratic process, I have been mistaken for easy.

Well it is time for the courtship to begin anew.

Reconciliation with a public option AND a medicare expansion might turn my head to the middle but for now I am back to looking left.

The left has been right about everything.

Oh and Olympia Susan and Mike need to retire.

[Ken Burch]

1. Well, it's hard to blame you

The "you owe the party everything, the party owes you NOTHING" crowd will be after your head in a moment, though.

[mirrera]

3. flame retardant invisibility cloak jauntily wrapped about me as I turn away...

[Ken Burch]

4. Sort of an Asbestos-Kevlar Snuggie?

n/t.

[mirrera]

6. LOL!

[HughMoran]

11. foment

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[mirrera]

5. Registering independent is just that. Who I vote for becomes a statistical unknown.

It is the only statistic I've got at the moment. My... uh... political capital so to speak. So laugh away.

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[mirrera]

8. I've been a poll watcher. Believe me it has an effect.

Maybe not on Barack Obama, but politics begin locally. They always have they always will. There are many ripples.

edited to add: In a small town in a small state we are very aware of who is "in the Party" and who is not. It is the only boycott I can make at this point. I do not forsee a primary that I need to take part in coming up so it is the right time.

[NMMNG]

9. Hear, hear

I changed my registration from "Democratic Party" to "Unaffiliated" after the primaries last year. While we voted for Democrats otherwise, my wife and I voted Green for President/Vice President in the November 2008 election.


Many of us joined the Democratic party because it was in line with our values. Sadly some people think that we should remain loyal to the Party no matter how far right it lurches, how many promises it breaks, how despicable it becomes, etc. IOW, we're supposed to ditch our values in favor of party loyalty. I say, screw that. If that's what I wanted I'd be a Republican.

If the Democrats want our votes let them earn them. They shouldn't be able to take us for granted. They shouldn't be able to assume they're going to get our votes simply because they suck marginally less than the Republicans.

[bunny planet]

10. This is exactly what I have been thinking

Let them guess which side we are on. Imagine the Democrats in Congress consternation if hundreds of thousands of Democrats changed their party affiliation to Independent. They wouldn't be able to predict where their votes were coming from. They always play to the independents in elections, let it be us, former Democrats who are not to be taken for granted anymore.