That would be great and all, but I can't bring myself to vote for someone who I know doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being elected.

This is why the two party system is bullshit.

How can we have a clean candidate if he has to bow to the whim of the party that elected him?

Just look at George Bush. Without his party's favor, he looks like a damned fool up there.

If I remember right, one of the Founding Fathers said political parties would destroy this nation.

And indeed, with issues like the Bailout and a very partisan Congress...
They just may.