Are you merely being petty?  That was an explanation. An explanation which you seemed to understand as you changed your question from "what does X party stand for" to "what does an independent stand for."

As to your new question: Is that not the point of being an independent?  For each candidate to stand for what he or she individually believes in rather than what a party believes in?  If you are honestly interested in knowing what each independent candidate stands for why are you asking here and not asking the independent candidate himself?