[Torie]

What you need to do is obtain an expertise on some issue, and then opine with a mastery of the topic. Absent that, one is just taking up bandwidth. There are NO shortcuts. Obtaining the intellectual capital to really have much of an impact is a long, hard slog.

[Republican Challenger]

I've had the intellectual capital to found an award-winning magazine and nationally acclaimed advertising agency. My record on human rights earned me an audience with Nelson Mandela on June 30, 1990 when he came to Los Angeles on his world tour after being freed from prison.
I have met and talked with or interviews three Presidents and various memebrs of Congress. My references include former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who I wrote about in 1976 when he ran for the Senate.
I am serious about introducing genuinely new ideas into the Presidential debate. I am not "against" Bush. I am in favor of an entirely new approach that favors the middle class, not the global corporate interests.
Give that choice, how can you not side with the people?