There have been other Republican candidates for national office, for example Dan Quayle or George W. Bush, who were widely viewed as being intellectual lightweights, but these candidates, and their party, sought to combat this perception.
Even though Mosley has never been floored in his career, he can arguably be viewed as a pumped-up lightweight, a fact that hasn't been lost in the De La Hoya camp.
But we underestimate Bradley Walsh; we see him as lightweight.
In late 2007, US diplomats described the young politician, recently appointed to lead the Congress youth wing, as "widely viewed as an empty suit and will have to prove wrong those who dismiss him as a lightweight".
Booker is viewed as undecided.
Applicants are viewed as commodities.
Rebecca Miller's new movie looks as lightweight as they come.
Despite four fine soloists, notably Lisa Milne, his Requiem proved as lightweight as the symphony was lacklustre.
Too many people view the pre-Raphaelites as lightweight chocolate-box merchants.
This relentlessly sanguine perspective, his cheerful willingness to celebrate rather than to excoriate, continues to mean that some will always view him as a lightweight, an artist manqué who sold out to the juggernaut of American popular culture.
