(Just for the record, I'm registered "Unaffiliated")

Taking your points in order.

Cut taxes. Well, the majority of Americans don't think we can "afford" that right now. Truth of the matter is, since the taxes are skewed the way they are, ANY tax cut could be accurately derided as 'for the rich' since 'the poor' pay so little in taxes.

Keep Gitmo open. Gitmo is on the recruiting posters for terrorists. It's another justification for attacks on the U.S. - that we're hypocrites in detaining people without charge or trial. At best, Gitmo should be a short-term holding tank.

Military trials for terrorists. I'd say many should get exactly that, but there are exceptions.

Tort reform. Has ANYone heard anything about this? All I hear are crickets...

Health insurance across state lines. Seems to have been drowned out in all the other health-care related noise.

No fed funding of abortions. There's a lightning rod that I *knew* would show up when people got serious about health care reform. Here's a question - is federal funding of abortions any different (from the "I don't want my tax dollars going to that" point of view) from war funding?

Never mind the "you liberals are..." stuff. Do you not see what happened?

Bush/Cheney/McCain was rejected by an overwhelming margin.

Now, in Massachusetts, perhaps the 3rd most liberal state in the nation, a Republican is elected, repudiating what the Democrats are doing on a national level.

What does this say?

It says, to me at least, that the political parties have lost touch with the majority of Americans. Americans who are more middle-of-the-road and willing to compromise. It says, to me, that we need a viable 3rd party now more than ever.