[Elsie]

In the old days you could have dark horses or impressive flashes in the pan just come out of nowhere.

WHAT?

I wouldn't exactly call 2008 the OLD days!

[Impy]

Yeah. He was neither a dark horse or a flash in the pan but a designed candidate, tailor made for the American Idol electorate. That’s the difference.

It all started with selecting him for the keynote address at the 2004 rat convention when he was just a lowly Senate nominee. And he gave that speech full of platitudes that sounded really impressive to people with the political IQ of a grapefruit.