What do you think of this political term idea?

A lot of people in our country (the USA) often complain about our terms in this country. Many people complain that politicians are forced to deal with continuously “campaigning” for office, which effects their decisions whilst in office. A politician for example might vote against a tax increase that they know the country needs, because it will be used against them in their upcoming reelection bid. Others complain that spending too much time in Washington and away from their home states and constituents leads politicians to forget their ways and become corrupt by big business or “beltway politics.” Of note is that in the upcoming mid-term 2010 elections the Tea party and many others are advocating throwing out EVERY politician and replacing them with new people. Ideas of limiting politicians to one term have been floated before (and now) but never successful.

So my idea is this. Rather than limiting politicians to one term, or two terms (as with presidents), and rather than allowing many of them to run continuously forever (such as how senators have no term limits)..... is how about we enact a ban on consecutive terms? In other words when you get elected, you don’t have to worry about “campaigning” with your political choices, because you will be unable to run for immediate re-election. You would be able to run again in the next election (after you leave office) though. This would give your policies and choices time to be reflected on (you can’t really pass judgement on many political choices until years later), and if people later decided they were good choices you could be elected back into office later.

We could add some kind of clause where if 75% of the population or something along those lines voted to allow you to run for office again, you can run again. That way popular presidents or senators could remain in office, assuming the vast majority of the populace approves of them.

What do you think?