We’re not the only ones to notice that Connie Mack IV, nee Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV, is one of the lightest weight lightweights ever to run on the Republican ticket for the Senate from Florida, and that’s saying something.

After all, this is the state that sent George LeMieux, whose claim to fame might be only that his last name contains more vowels than consonants, to fill the spot vacated by Mel Martinez, who quit partway through his term to pursue closer family relations.

That tendency seems to be largely Republican in nature, but at least Martinez wasn’t trying to spend more time with Sarah Palin’s family.

I digress.

The point is, someone else is taking a look at Mack IV (R), now running for the seat held by Sen. Bill Nelson (D), and coming up underwhelmed.

Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino sent a memo to Mack from his fictitious image consulting firm. In it, he presented Mack with answers he might use to address issues uncovered by opposition research.

Issue No. 1: Work experience.

Problem: Before trading on the name of your father (a U.S. senator) to begin your current career as a full-time servant of the people in 2001, the most meaningful employment you had was as a “special events coordinator” for a bunch of Hooters restaurants. Boiled down to its essence: You were the go-to guy for folks who wanted to have scantily clad waitresses appear at their events.

Solution: You will be effective in a Democratic-controlled Senate, because you already know what it’s like being surrounded by a bunch of boobs.

We thought Connie Macks II and III pretty well traded on Mack IV’s greatgrandfather’s name, and that no Mack has done much since the original earned his way into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In any case, all could agree that the genes are breaking down over time.

Issue No. 2: Education.

Problem: Despite being a legislator with a stated passion for education, you needed 6½ years to get an undergraduate degree in advertising, which you accomplished three months shy of your 26th birthday.

Solution: You’re not one of those educational “elites.” This will give you significant inroads with the tea party voters, who believe Ivy League educations and law-review honors are flaws.

If Mack takes that tack, it will give his platform some consistency, which cannot be said for this next part. We were not surprised that Republicans are deeply hypocritical and would both try to limit our right to sue — say, if a careless doctor prescribes a medicine that kills us — and run to a lawyer if their own neighbor’s dog barks. We knew that. No, we were surprised that Mack IV has been before judges so often.

Issue No. 3: Lawsuit trouble.

Problem: You once sued Ron Gant, an outfielder for the Atlanta Braves, for beating you up in a barroom fight.

Solution: It was not a frivolous lawsuit. The jury awarded you monetary damages.

Issue No. 4: Lawsuit trouble, part 2.

Problem: Yes, but the monetary damages totaled $1.

Solution: But that was 1992 dollars. The dollar was worth much more back then.

Issue No. 5: Speaking of public fights

Problem: You had at least four physical confrontations in public between 1987 and 1992, including one that ended with you being arrested for fighting with an off-duty cop who was working as a bouncer at a Jacksonville nightclub, and another when you got into a fistfight with another driver while you were waiting for a drawbridge to go down in West Palm Beach.

Solution: That was just part of your youthful-­indiscretion period.

Speaking of time in court, Mack’s 2006 divorce from first wife Ann was a goldmine for opposition researchers, and leads Cerabino to one of Mack IV’s biggest hiccups. Let’s call it his Gingrich Problem.

Issue No. 7: Not-so-youthful indiscretions.

Problem: Soon after getting to Washington, you ditched your Florida wife, the mother of your two young children, to marry celebrity U.S. Rep. Mary Bono, the former wife of Sonny Bono.*

Solution: Sidetrack the questioner with a distraction. Can you call up those Hooters girls again?

One can’t help but wonder if Mack’s past had something to do with his initial decision, announced just last March, not to run for the Senate.

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, son of the former senator with the same name, announced Friday that he’ll seek re-election rather than run for U.S. Senate.

“I’ve got two small children, and it’s hard enough to get to spend a lot of good quality time now. I have a wife. They are all very important to me, and at the end of the day family has to be No. 1,” Mack told the St. Petersburg Times.

Seeing the field of contenders lining up to run against Nelson, which roughly parallels the national selection running against Obama, Mack must have realized he had a shot.

And if it doesn’t work out, he can always fall back on his original plan to spend more time with family — maybe even Mel Martinez’s family, or Sarah Palin’s.

*Cerabino refers to Bono as Sonny’s “former wife” but it’s worth noting she is, in fact, his widow.