It would appear that Thune’s little fairy’s have been busy this weekend. They have managed to get several web sites to push the “John Thune for 2012” pipe dream. And to say he is “an exceptionally skilled retail politician” is laughable. What has he done for SD? Tom Daschle and Sen. Johnson bailed him out on many occasions. He was the “Daschle slayer” because Club for Growth came with their thugs and fired off their nasty grams like Club for Growth is notorious for. Thune lands at Murdo Municipal Airport…..I think this is a subliminal-liminal hint that his 2012 campaign is going the same place as the Murdo Municipal Airport….no where . . . . because the airport doesn’t exist nor does his chance for Pres in 2012.
“John Thune is likely to run for president in 2012. If he wins the nomination, it will be because he is an exceptionally skilled retail politician who can communicate a kind of midwestern, common sense conservatism that is ascendant in reaction to liberal profligacy… It also helps that he’s cultivated the nationwide donor base that gave him $14.5 million to defeat Tom Daschle in 2004. And that South Dakota borders Iowa. And that he’s good on television. And that he’s a devout Christian who can quote Scripture without seeming to proselytize.”“But there are many obstacles. He has virtually no national profile. He worked briefly as a lobbyist. He voted for TARP. He is a defender of earmarks. He would be running against Washington from Washington.”
And it gets better;
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the “Daschle slayer†who beat the Senate Democratic leader in 2004, is ramping up plans for a presidential run in 2012, associates say.