The problem is not with old style senators. The problem is with the 95% of the general population that is confused or turned off by it. You're trying to convince the general electorate, which then determines who gets elected.
It does feel like a little club of geeks, which is not effective as a movement that aims to convince/beyond that circle.
Lets hope a majority of people will be fooled into thinking they are part of a special club of l33t interweb freedom f1ght3rs.
I am being both sarcatic ( about how everyone thinks they are a geek these days ) and honest ( about that it could actually work ) here.
Which, coincidentally, is a LOT of what you can see happening these days with "social networking" and "cloud computing" and all those other hypes and trends that basically existed very well in the 90s and before but now the public is "catching up" with technical developments.