This is perhaps the sanest message I have ever had from you. :) I agree with it.
BTW, I've been pushing the race to the bottom idea since way back last Fall when Romney was having a hard time breaking 20% ~ when he had even Michele Bachmann and Pawlenty as his only competition.
It's all coming true ~ we HAVE to find something better. Else it's beginning to look like we may have a Twelfth Amendment situation:
"The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. "