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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?

My card doesn't say anything either, but it was specified at registration. (To answer the next question: we're doggone good at crosschecking things around here.) I'm laughing now remembering helping my dad re-register when he moved here. I tried to get him to say independent, since specifying a preference would ethically support whatever candidate they ran, no matter how bad. He was so mad at Clinton that he wouldn't hear of it.

"Will you be voting to reelect your governor in 2006?"

If you mean will I vote for the incumbent Sanford, no, I won't. The reason, again, simply, is because I meant what I said.

I'm sure the many Terri supporters declaring their 3rd party preference here meant what they said too. Principle means more to them than flailing around inside a failed two-party system. They're people who put honor, conscience and morality first, ahead of all else. If one compromises with an evil as great as the one we face, then one throws those away. And without those things, one has nothing.

And that likely exceeds my rant quota for today....