[Wampus SC]

That's TX, and I take your word for it since you're a Texan.

You'd said you didn't think a voter could register as independent (semantics aside... ) in SC, so I corrected it.

In any event, principle must come first before party, and one shouldn't give tacit approval to a party that betrayed them by participating in any of its functions.

Pax.

[Theodore R.]

I should have added that one can register as an "independent" in many states, but TX is not among those. Neither is AR or MS, I don't think, and I thought that SC was the same. Does your registration card say "independent"? The TX registration cards do not state a party, but the clerks may stamp "Dem" or "Rep" when one signs up to vote in a party's primary.

I can understand your dismay. Will you be voting to reelect your governor in 2006?