Polis-Politics writes:

[The 2006 elections] took out some very strong GOP incumbents in 2006 (NH-1's Jeb Bradley, PA-4's Melissa Hart, and IA-2's Jim Leach) based solely on anti-incumbency, including anti-Bush anti-incumbency. But now Democrats are the incumbents, and they ain't too popular either. Just as Dems took out unpopular incumbents such as Indiana's John Hostetler and North Carolina's Charles Taylor (who lost to Heath Shuler), the GOP can easily do the same this year.

Much is revealed here. First, that the writer assumes anti-incumbency is a partisan event. He proposes that the GOP can, as a party, create an anti-incumbent election. The writer is wrong, first because an anti-incumbent election is far more an expression of exasperation with government results than with one party or another. In 2006, Democrats didn't replace Republicans in Congress because the public believed Democrats were superior. That fact was demonstrated by the Virginia election in which voters previously voting Republican didn't in 2006. Republican dissatisfaction registered in low GOP voter turnout. The growing throng of Independents however, voted Democrat to register dissatisfaction with Sen. George Allen (R) by electing Jim Webb (D) instead.

Party loyalty cannot create an anti-incumbent election. A fact lost on Polis Politic's writer. Only a pervasive dissatisfaction with Congressional results can do that, regardless of which party is in office. And that dissatisfaction, while showing up in party switches and cross party voting, is most prominently and decisively demonstrated in the Independent voters choices at the ballot box, without allegiance to one party or another.

To be sure, there was an anti-incumbent mood in 2006, but, that mood alone could not have returned control of both houses of Congress to Democrats. For that to happen, Independent voters had to register their dissatisfaction with incumbent candidates, and they did, in sufficient numbers of districts to change political history.

By the numbers, the Independents in 2006 outnumbered registered Democrats or Republicans. If there is to be an anti-incumbent dance on election day, it will be the Independent voters choreographing it. And if there is to be an anti-incumbent movement that transcends election moods every two years, it will be populated by a majority of Independent voters.

Richard Viguerie of The Conservative Voice attempts to imply that the majority of Virginians and Americans are principled conservatives who were disappointed at their Republican representatives abandonment of conservative ideology. He writes:

"The Virginia Republican Party--which dominated the state just a few years ago--has placed the raw pursuit of power over its principles, and in the process has lost both power and principles. It will not return to power until it returns to principled conservatism.

Of course, the anti-incumbent overturn of Republicans in 2006 was not a result of the public's frustrated demand for conservativism, but, instead a result of voter's disappointment with Republican results. The majority of Americans have never been conservative for the last many decades. They gave Republicans a shot at solving more problems than they create. They failed. The anti-incumbent is not about the war between extremist liberal and conservative ideologies. It is about those running government solving problems. The public doesn't care whether liberal or conservative policies provide jobs, peace, liberty, and prosperity for their children, as long as these things are largely provided by the management of this country.

Democrats now have power. If they fail to provide peace, liberty, and prosperity for the future, they too will be ousted. Not because they are liberals, but, because they failed to manage our nation appropriately in line with the desires of all voters for these ends.

There are a number of Anti-Incumbent web sites popping up on the internet. But, none of them have all the ingredients necessary to change federal government. They have a good idea, a web site, and good timing. I say good timing because as Tom Blakely writes: "No Incumbent is safe" these days. Here is a sampling:

• Anti-Incumbents.com
• U.S. Congressional Anti-Incumbent Party, which isn't a registered Party at all.
• No Incumbents.Org

Changing federal government responsibility and accountability will take a lot more than these sites offer, however, it will take organization of committed voters. A true Anti-Incumbent organization must be non-partisan, must be legal, registered with the Federal Elections Commission and IRS, and must be funded and organized by a growing membership of voters committed to the Anti-Incumbent movement with a plan for responsible and accountable government. There is only one Anti-Incumbent organization that meets all these criteria, and that is Vote Out Incumbents Democracy, or VOID for short.

VOID is using membership contributions to purchase Independent voter email lists to reach out to them with our message, our plan, and hope for far better government than we now receive for our tax dollars. Members like us and you are the Anti-Incumbent movement. Nothing happens if individuals do their own thing. Much will happen if 10's of thousands spread the word to millions of voters to organize and make the goal a reality. Join VOID. Make it happen.