…even the one with teeth that Mickey Kaus (via Instapundit) is advocating here: if you don’t like either of the two major party’s candidates, join one of the parties and make sure that it produces better candidates. Admittedly, that’s work and everything; but it’s also a lot less dismissive of the people who are already engaged in the dull, unglamorous life of maintaining and and growing the local party infrastructures. For that matter: the purpose of a representative is to represent. Even a dunderhead can do things for his or her constituents while in office, and even dunderheads can have a staff. Vacant slots on the legislative chart can do and have neither.
I’m a little surprised that Mickey’s arguing this, actually: the man ran for Senate, after all. Admittedly, given his views he was running under the wrong party…