If you liked our first "Who's at the Door" TV ad, you'll love our new radio spots!

Released today, these two ads reflect an uncomfortable truth that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor would rather ignore: Wayne Powell is an independent-minded, fiscally-conservative Democrat who just might be your kind of Republican.

The radio spots feature two conservative neighbors discussing the upcoming Congressional election. While not a fan of traditional Democrats, the two Republican men decide that party just isn't as important as common-sense leadership, and they agree that Wayne Powell is the man for the job.

Dream on. But Democratic long shot Wayne Powell might put a few dents in the House majority leader's armor.

On September 17, the day Mitt Romney was outed for dismissing half the country as a hopeless waste of time at a high-dollar Florida fundraiser, Wayne Powell quietly slipped into Los Angeles for a fundraiser of his own. As it happened, Romney was in town too, trying to convince Latino voters he loved them despite his penchant for referring to undocumented immigrants as "illegal aliens," his self-deportation proposal, and his cloying quip—from the same "47 percent" video—that his White House dreams would be made easier if he were Latino.

You could be forgiven for not having heard of Wayne Powell. Until Virginia's 7th District Democratic Committee chose him by caucus to throw at Eric Cantor, the well-coiffed, sparkly toothed House majority leader who holds the district's congressional seat, few had. To make Powell's quest even more quixotic, the 7th District votes Republican so reflexively that the national Dems, including the party's "Drive for 25" campaign to take back the House, have pretty much left Powell to fend for himself. Which is why Powell, a lawyer and decorated Army veteran, was in town with fellow political outsider Rob Zerban for a low-key fundraiser at the Pacific Palisades home of actress Barbara Bosson (Hill Street Blues, Murder One). Zerban is vying for Wisconsin's 1st District House seat, whose incumbent is Paul Ryan—a man with higher aspirations, of course, but who is running for reelection as an insurance policy of sorts.

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Ed Schultz is joined by Democratic challenger Wayne Powell on the heels of his debate with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Democrat Wayne Powell came out swinging Monday and remained on the offensive throughout the first debate in the race for Virginia’s 7th congressional district seat, accusing U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of abdicating his role as a leader of Congress and repeatedly slamming him for his lack of military service, while the visibly agitated six-term incumbent labored to furiously fend off the flurry of attacks.

Mr. Powell’s campaign has vowed to frame Mr. Cantor to both his constituents and the entire country as an unapologetic partisan irrevocably beholden to large corporations and special interest groups — and the former Army colonel wasted no time in lobbing grenades at the Republican incumbent Monday evening in Richmond before a national audience on C-SPAN2.

“He never talks about working people — he only talks about business people,” Mr. Powell said in the hour-long forum hosted by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. “These people are suffering — I’ve seen them all the time … you’re so far removed from reality, I don’t think you even know what a small business is except for a hedge fund.”

GOOCHLAND, Va. —In their first and perhaps only debate in the race for a U.S. House seat, Democratic challenger Wayne Powell said Monday that Rep. Eric Cantor, R-7th is the problem with Washington — and Cantor said Powell is not the solution.

Powell, a 61-year-old Midlothian lawyer and retired Army colonel, went on the attack early and often, charging Cantor with playing “the blame game” to explain why Washington has failed to solve the nation’s economic problems.

Cantor, 49, the House majority leader, said his plan of not raising taxes, reducing regulation, limiting spending and opposing President Barack Obama’s health care law stood in stark contrast to Powell’s positions on the issues.

The event, sponsored by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and broadcast live by C-SPAN2 from CarMax headquarters in Goochland County, was the most public opportunity yet for the underfunded and less-known Powell to take his message to voters in the 7th District, where Cantor has served since 2001 and won election six times.