“For anyone who views politics with more seriousness than choosing which football team to support, power politics or the ‘lesser of two evils’ just won’t hack it. When one loses pride even in winning, loyalty has to go, and I abandoned politics. My vote no longer made a significant difference. My support produced bad results. Worse yet, my support would have the result of encouraging, of rewarding more of the same. Voting for someone who couldn’t be trusted to do what you justifiably expected of him is NO vote at all. The party was no longer my party … it was just another party I couldn’t trust. That’s essentially what happened to Sue Jeffers, and like me, she ended up discovering and embracing the ideological Libertarian Party, Just tonight, we once again agreed that the GOP platform sounds like it was written by a libertarian. Unfortunately, the GOP party doesn’t pay any attention to their platform (nor do the Democrats to theirs).” (05/10/06)