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You want to tell me why an independent can’t be a conservative? There are a lot of us out here that do NOT belong to the GOP any longer.

Yes, it's quite possible for an "independent" to be a conservative, but...

That begs the question....

If you're a conservative, why hide behind the independent label? If you prescribe to the principles of conservatism, what do you gain by claiming to be "independent"? If you are truly a conservative, then you aren't really independent, are you?

Now, when it comes to an independent coming out to run as a democrat, that's not believable either, since, if he/she were truly independent, and could conceivably vote either way in an election, why would he or she choose to be openly declaring to run as a democrat? The independent label is mostly a farce for most people, since, they do hae feelings one way or the other, and, there is no such thing as a neutral voter. Independents will, for the most part, vote for either a republican or a democrat during elections, and the party which they vote for, hardly ever changes; thus, they are either democrats or republicans, hiding behind a label which they wish to sell as "uncommitted".