Photo via Hank for Senate

It’s been a while since we checked up on the race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim Webb, the Virginia Democrat who is leaving the chamber after a single term. By all accounts, the contest is shaping up as a tight one between former Gov. Tim Kaine, the Democratic nominee, and former Sen. George Allen, the Republican who is trying to reclaim the seat Webb knocked him from in 2006.

But what about that pesky, furry third-party candidate? Hank the Cat, the Maine coon from Fairfax who is purportedly running an independent bid for seat, is still in it. And as the race enters the home stretch, Hank is stepping up his game.

In a new video, Hank’s campaign riffs on an oft-broadcast spot by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that stacks up the ways in which President Obama has fallen short. Except Hank turns his disgust toward the 112th Congress—the most unpopular in recorded history, according to recent polling—and offers a new solution:

Get rid of the humans.

Yep, Hank’s campaign has turned from low-boil fiscal conservatism to all-out hostility toward the human species. But before Hank can pass his radical agenda of mandatory yarn-swatting, he needs our votes. Huffington Post D.C. reports that Hank will be making a campaign stop next weekend at Beulah Park in Fairfax County. The event will include softball, free hamburgers and a raffle to benefit animal welfare. All in the pursuit of punishing humans for their failures.

Watch Hank’s ad: