I am a member of a political party, but I do not carry a card in my wallet. I think my party stopped sending out membership cards years ago.
I have a voter card, and I do carry it in my wallet so I don’t lose it. It has the party I’m registered as printed on it, but I don’t consider myself a ‘card-carrying’ member of that party. I prefer not to self-identify as a member of a political party at all. I have been registered under both parties at different times in my life, but have never voted a straight party ticket.
I’m a card-carrying anarchist.
…OK, not really. My voter registration card says “no affiliation,” even though I caucused with the Democrats in 2004. At the time I thought that would involve joining a political party – for the first time in my voting life, which began in 1985 – but if I’m a Democrat now, no one seems to know. Washington state seems pretty casual about this sort of thing.
I am not a member of a political party. I vote, and vote regularly, but I refuse to swell either major party’s membership rolls with my name. In this state that means I cannot vote in the primaries, but that doesn’t bother me too much.
I am too disgusted with either major political party to want to be associated with either of them.
Mind you, while I consider myself to be strongly conservative, I also approve highly of the ACLU, and if I had the money would be one of their card-carrying members. I think that there are more conservatives than some posters might think who support the ACLU for the necessary role of testing the limits of the government. I don’t often agree with the cases that the ACLU chooses to endorse, but that doesn’t translate to mean that I disagree with the mission of the ACLU.