It could be softened like that. But nobody ever gets ahead by following followers. And ‘indepentents’ and ‘moderates’ are followers.
If you lead, they will follow. If you let them lead, you go nowhere.
riiiight...because I, as an...smirk..'indepentent' choose to not blindly follow a party's line...am the follower...???
As an Independent Conservative, I will continue to lead by example, and choose my political leaders using principled logic...
Lets just say, we are all VERY lucky McCain picked Palin, because now I (along with many I believe) can sign on and vote the GOP ticket in, without pinching our "principled" noses till they break...