That vishus, vishus cycle of "electability"

CBSNews' blog asks the question, "Why Aren't We Hearing More About Brownback and Huckabee?"(here), and the conclusion is that vicious cycle of credibility-as-a-Pres-candidate>media-attention>fundraising-capability>media-attention, etc. Here's the key quote of journalist Ververs:

"'Up until now, they haven't gotten the attention because they haven't demonstrated that they have much support,' said Ververs. 'In order for that to be demonstrated, they need to have some tangible evidence – which would be polls, fundraising, things we can measure support by. And if you look at those measurements, they are far behind people that supposedly aren't that conservative.'
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That won't be easy, however, unless they can get the press corps to pay a little more attention to them and a little less to the candidates with better fundraising and poll numbers. "

At this stage in the game, voters--especially my peoples, should pay less attention to "conventional wisdom" and eagerly back the candidate that resonates with them on policy. I won't deny that a candidate like Fred Thompson has appeal for his potential to appeal to voters in a general election, but there's no need to dumb down the debate on what really matters--the policy, more than a year out from actual votes being cast.