Precisely. So-called independents are just people who are too clueless to know *what* they are, and/or too gutless to admit that they are really liberals.
Either way — clueless or gutless — when confronted with a choice between Mitt Romney and 4 more years of Bonzo the Wonder Chimp, you can count on them voting the wrong way nearly every time.
Romney is not now, and never was, up big among so-called independents. I said weeks ago that any media-cooked poll that showed otherwise was only fabricating a temporary lead in that category for Romney so that that they could gleefully show him crashing back down at the last minute — which is *exactly* what the media is doing.
Remember all that “How can Romney be up only 2 points overall when he is up 15 among independents?” crap? That’s just what it was — crap. A fabricated lead among independents created only for the purposes of destroying that lead at the proper time, which is now.
No offense, but that's nonsense. Lots of conservatives refuse to officially (or otherwise) affiliate themselves with the Republican party, and call themselves independents. That doesn't make them liberals.