[Popman]

The one advantage of staying R in some states is that this is required for you to be allowed to vote in R party primaries.

The one and only reason I don't tell the GOP to stick it where the moon don't shine...

In Florida you can't vote in the primary outside your party affiliation...

[deport]

Depending upon how you qualify open primary there are 20 or so states using that form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_primaries_in_the_United_States

http://www.fairvote.org/congressional-and-presidential-primaries-open-closed-semi-closed-and-top-two

[MinuteGal]

When I read that some freeper is now a "proud registered Independent" it's like someone waving a red flag in front of me.

In many states, this "proud registered Independent" won't be able to vote for a true conservative candidate in his state's primary....therefore, he's now politically emasculated.

Crowing about it also leads other unthinking or politically-naive folks to follow suit, only to discover to their surprise at the polling place that they will not be allowed to vote for a Ted Cruz or a Sarah Palin or a Mike Lee.

The next election is the most critical in our nation's history. Primary elections will tell the tale. We have to play with the cards dealt us at the moment.

To those who advocate re-registering as "independent", please take your self-defeating, narcissistic advice to an "independent" web site where you can crow about your superior intellect and remarkable "independence" to a host of other losers, drop-outs and political castrati....all of whom will be politically impotent in the next election except, maybe, as catastrophic spoilers.

Leni