Political Identity Crisis

Why do you need to choose a label? How about just considering yourself an independent, and voting on each issue and each candidate on the merits?For myself, I don't think libertarianism works. It seems to be based on a romanticized idea about people that does not correspond to the way people really behave.As an independent, I can recognize that health care is broken and we need to consider a governmental system for that. At the same time, I can recognize that going the whole hog into socialism (state ownership of all industry) would be very damaging to the most creative economic forces.Oh, and as an independent I can recognize that today's Republican party is under the control of extremists, and thus is not currently worthy of my vote.

One of the important voting principles is "throw the rascals out". If the candidates are all pretty bad, then vote against the incumbent.