Here are a few other options: 1) Ask the good representatives to run for senate or govenor, 2) Ask the good representative to support the GOOOH candidate if the chosen person has the right credentials and positions on the key issues - there are 660,000 members in each district; surely we have more than one good candidate, 3) Vote the good representative if she or he is in fact better than the GOOOH candidate.

Recognize that GOOOH is a new process. While we may like a few of our current representatives, sometimes it is worthwhile to take a few steps backwards so that we can take 435 forward. If we are not willing to do something diferent, and we keep sending the same representatives to Washington, we will get the exact same results. Expecting otherwise is the defintion of insanity, per Einstein.

Finally, while you may like the way your rep votes, ask yourself what he did to seal the borders, balance the budget, improve the education system, or address the looming social security crisis. Ask him/her what he has done about the 10th Amendment while in office, or whatever other topic is of importance to you. You may like the person, but the results speak for themselves. We need new leaders, and we must be willing to support a new way to select them if we want to improve the situation.

I've mentioned elsewhere that one of the few down sides that I see to GOOOH and term limits is that there are some Representatives who are excellent. Geof Davis is my Representative, and virtually every time I've learned how he voted, he voted the way I'd want him to. That's someone that I don't want to kick out of congress. And it seems somewhat counter productive to run a campaign against them.

I understand the goal of GOOOH is not just to elect a few good officials, but to change the very structure of the way we elect candidates. And in the long run, I support that goal. But in the short term, it seems that it could possible produced some lost ground in a few areas--particularly since the kind of people who support Geof Davis are likely to be the same people who are most likely to support GOOOH.

One way to circumvent this problem might be to see if we can't recruit some current representatives to be GOOOH candidates. I know it's an extreme long shot, but think of the positive publicity and such that having an encumbent join GOOOH would generate. Or even a candidate who is has served in the past, but is no longer the elected official.

So the question is, what can we do to try to recruit these sorts of participants? And if we can recruit them, do we really want them?