Ironic Johnny Thool to run for president? Please do. Would love to watch him fall on his face. (H/T – Helga)
“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.”
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.