[amsterdamage]

Man, that's such a great goal to set!! The best thing I can recommend is watch a lot of CSPAN and research the backgrounds of the current representatives and senators. Work out what qualifications are most respected and most likely to get you in. Since you have to be elected in a lot of it will be image, so one good thing you can do for yourself is to do a lot of volunteer work, something substantial that'll sound good when people are reading over your bio.

Also, you want to learn how to debate so listen to them on CSPAN, they're always very polite to each other even though they hardly ever agree with each other. Join a debating team and a public speaking group as well so you get used to presenting and defending your opinions.

Now you've got your goal check whether your plan to achieve it is the best one. Will time in the military plus an associates degree followed by a doctorate be respected enough? I don't the answer to that but it should be easy to find out by looking at the qualifications and backgrounds of the people currently in those positions.


Good luck man!!
Now you've set yourself a great goal (which is often the hardest thing to do) work out the best plan to get yourself there. Once you've done that work your ass off to make it reality.

EDIT:
I just remembered man, one thing that'll help you is to include marketing in your studies. I never thought anything about marketing until I studied it and made it my major but it changes the way you view the world and it'll help you analyze your target market and sell yourself to it.