I think you will be surprised how many here are independent moderate conservatives who have been completely turned off by the direction the Democratic party has been moving in the past few decades. I recently told a friend of mine who is a Democrat that I would never even consider voting for a Democratic candidate as long as that party gave people like Michael Moore a place of honor. Sadly, it appears that the Democratic party has more or less been taken over by people who stand for nothing more than hating President Bush.
A good friend of mine here in Tucson who was a registered democrat changed his registration to independent out of disgust with what he was seeing in that party. BTW, he voted for Bush.