Hilarity Ensues
Remember George H.W. Bush and his amazement at grocery store scanners back in 1992. While the Bush/Cheney campaign seems a bit more in step with the times, they do seem to be a bit awestruck at the power of the Internet to fuel the economy:

Indicators measure the nation’s unemployment rate, consumer spending and other economic milestones, but Vice President Dick Cheney says it misses the hundreds of thousands who make money selling on eBay.
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“That’s a source that didn’t even exist 10 years ago,” Cheney told an audience in Cincinnati on Thursday. “Four hundred thousand people make some money trading on eBay.”
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San Jose, Calif.-based eBay Inc. is an Internet auction site where anyone can sell just about anything, including clothing, cell phones, jewelry, memorabilia, trinkets and automobiles.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards responded that Cheney’s comments show how “out of touch” he and President Bush are with the economy.

“If we only included bake sales and how much money kids make at lemonade stands, this economy would really be cooking,” Edwards said in a statement.

And then there's this from Mad Magazine (I didn't know they were still publishing), imagining what a Bush/Cheney campaign ad would look like if they were running against Jesus. (Yepp, that Jesus.)