Thune Could Replace Ensign on GOP Policy Committee
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
We're hearing that South Dakota Sen. John Thune has locked up support to replace Sen. John Ensign as chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. The opening came when Ensign admitted to an affair with an ex-aide and could clear the way for Thune, talked about last year as a vice presidential nominee, to run against President Obama in 2012.
Tall, somewhat quiet, and Western handsome, Thune is already considered a dragon-slayer, having taken out former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 and beating back a base closing in his state during the Bush administration. Should he nail the policy job as expected, he'll be able to dream up new policies for a party starved for fresh ideas and faces. And if that works out, then look for him to make trips to primary and caucus states, ostensibly just to talk about GOP policies and platform but also to test the waters for a 2012 bid.
Whispers has written about him in the past, focusing on his bid to stop the base closing and once on his unique fashion trait of wearing his trademark cowboy boots with cuffed pants.
Conservatives tell us they like him and his able staff, and that should help the rest of the GOP leadership as they craft a path to trim Obama's sails. And we've been assured that he's as clean cut as they come.
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John Thune
John Thume is a rather new name to many of us conservatives. We need more information about him. Is he a consolidator of a party of many factions of reasonable similarities that can join into a party of purpose to; defeat a good speaker whose talent ends with his speach?
Switching Johns...
So the Policy Repubs want to switch one JOHN for another JOHN...Hopefully this one will lock up his personal life and follow the obviously lost 11th Commandment: "Though shalt not put thy rod in thy staff."
The Republicans have a GREAT opportunity.....IF
If they can find the right person. McCain certainly wasn't it which is why we are where we are today. SCREWED.
I'd like to see Condi Rice step up and speak as well as many of the fine Conservative Governors.
They actually have experience. Not College/Social theories.
The Obama/Pelosi/Reid Trilogy are our best advertisement for REAL "change" in washington Government.
NOT the rehashed DEM RELIGION TIMES TRILLIONS we have today.
Obama's plans aren't new just way more EXPENSIVE than ever before.
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