I'm not an anarchist, but I do believe firmly in the idea that government should be reduced to its absolute minimum, kept "as small, starved, and inoffensive as possible", and "that government governs best which governs least". This would accomplish that goal.

... in the same way that a guillotine would accomplish the goal of curing a headache, I suppose ...

I can agree with the goal, though the method may not work. I think the original idea of preventing the government from controlling too much was a good one, it's just that they accidentally made the commerce clause overly broad and certain things started getting interpreted too widely. If the huge corporations cannot force their will on people and their competitors via regulations in the government (because the government doesn't have the power to place those regulations,) then they will send less money to the politicians ( ... )

More generally: every politician must, by his very existence, piss enough people off to make his survival for more than a short while completely impossible.

As a simple example: there are prominent "conservatives" who apparently believe that evangelical christianity should be elevated above other religions in this country. I, and a jury of my peers, would easily determine that this person is working to the vast detriment of me and everybody else who disagrees, and thus this politician would get the death penalty. On the other hand, there are large segments of the country that actually do believe that evangelical christianity is the true religion of this country and should be -- or already is -- the state religion. They would condemn any politician who espouses support for the freedom of/from religion that is enshrined in the first amendment.

Indeed, something I've long held: a politician should, as Jay mentioned in his original post, care for all the people, but it is physically impossible to please all the people all the time. As a fresh-faced political candidate myself just getting my policies codified, one of them is that I pledge to listen to what all my electorate has to say, but nowhere do I promise to do as they all say. In fact, it stands to reason that the more you do care about your electorate rather than your party, the more people you'll tick off. Thereby proving my earlier point that no one will be a politician and that rather than having a small government, we would be guaranteed no government, making the original proposition a great idea on paper that I like, but completely unworkable in real life (like Communism ;). QED.