re: Party Politics and the Crumbling of an Empire

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I find anyone associated with either party to be a weirdo. Sorry, but the people that are true republican and democrats are freaks.

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I am a conservative - I would like to vote for whichever party best advances conservative principles.

Unfortunately I am reduced to voting for whichever party is least opposed to conservative principles.

I wish the DEM party would adopt a more conservative agenda. I think the power brokers in the GOP are bad, but not as bad as the power brokers in the DEM party.

Parties per se have no appeal to me.

I would like to see ballots that have no party affiliation noted. I would like to eliminate the "straight party vote" option. I would like to see each ballot present candidates in random order - different for each voter so you would actually have to search for the person you want to vote for.

I would also like to see some sort of 'truth in advertising' requirement for campaign allegations. If you want to put on TV that 'GOP wants to starve your children' you should have to prove that there is actual evidence to support that allegation to the exclusion of any other reasonable conclusion.

You should be able to proclaim anything you want about yourself - "we will stop the seas from rising" should be ok - but you should NOT be able to smear the OTHER candidate with your stupidity. There should be criminal charges for such blatant perfidy.