Anarchists, unite! Unaffiliateds, affiliate!

Larry Bumgarner has launched the Unaffiliated Party. This oxymoronically-named party has the admittedly praiseworthy goal of making the government responsive to the citizens, rather than to the political parties, but I think Mr. Bumgarner's concept -- and his website -- need to be thought through a bit more.

For example, the following statement on the main page is absurd:

By the way: Our votes count in the election but we have to choose a party to vote for in the primary. The first thing we need you to do is to contact the elected officials and get them to allow us to vote for the person, no matter what the party affiliation, in each and every election including the primaries.

Ummm..... A primary, by definition, is an election in which the members of a given political party select their candidates for the general election. If you're not affiliated with that party, you should have no say in determining who that party's candidate will be. Okay?

Also, having "We are the absence of Political Color" as part of one's motto is a tad uninspiring, as well as counterproductive.