"It's like if someone asked you what disease you wanted - cancer or tuberculosis," the salesman with the cigarette tarred voice told me.

"That's what the choice is like here' no one stands out as a good option."

The sentiments of the fifty-something salesman, who works at a car yard, is typical of the many people I've spoken to since the election was called.

As a rusted on Liberal Party voter, he wants the Howard-Costello regime to continue.

But he doesn't want to vote for McKillop, aged 33, because he feels she is too young and inexperienced in life and career.

The sad reality is McKillop and Turnour are proud members of the emerging political class, spending their careers working for politicians or parties as advisers, gophers and hacks.

McKillop talks up the schmaltzy image about her work on fishing trawlers. In reality, that was 14 years ago when she was 19, and it lasted less than six months.

And it doesn't disguise the fact she spent the past eight years as a Liberal Party media adviser.

Turnour is the same. Apart from being shoehorned by the state Labor government into a job helping communities recover from Cyclone Larry, Jim is one of those unfortunate souls who lives and breathes party politics, instead of real life.

Indeed, parliament is in danger of being overrun by people who are entirely unrepresentative of those who elect them.

Warren Entsch has his faults, but at least he had a colourful and varied career entirely removed from the machinations of the Canberran political subculture.

Don't bother checking the McKillop or Turnour websites to learn about their careers. Their online biographies are generic, glossed over pieces of fluff.

Here's the real scoop.

After a brief stint on fishing trawlers after high school, McKillop was a journalist for small newspapers for five years.

For eight years after she turned 25, between April 1999 and May this year, she worked for politicians as a gatekeeper between the media and the government.

And that's the sum total of her experience.

Turnour's CV doesn't read any better.

He was a fully fledged member of the political class for two years in the office of Labor Senator Jan McLucas, doing similar work to McKillop.

Not wanting to be far from the political game, he worked for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries for nine years, gaining insights into political strategies and processes, pork barrelling and government goodwill gestures.

In between these political roles he was self-employed, doing what he calls "specialising in facilitation/training and consulting services to individuals, businesses and communities."

I can only assume that's a euphemism for "campaigning".

Let's be frank. Would either of them have won preselection if they just walked in off the street, unbeknownst to their party's hierarchy? I seriously doubt it.

Rather, they had to spend years working their way up the political ladder, currying favour with party elders such as Entsch and McLucas.

In his book The Triumph of the Political Class, British journalist Peter Oborne explores this growing problem.

Oborne writes that members of the political class have a "lack of experience and connection with other ways of life" who make government their "exclusive study".

He says they are unlikely to have significant knowledge of industry, commerce or civil society, converting them into a "separate, privileged elite".

McKillop and Turnour say they will represent your best interests if elected.

Unfortunately, a seat in federal Parliament really just represents the next logical step in their political career.