This guy is the biggest threat to President Obama, no more!

Okay I was wrong about this one.  I have seen Senator Thune as the Republican 2012 presidential candidate; and the only one that can seriously challenge ‘The O’.  If one looks at the political life of Thune you’ll realize that they (the republican structure, the same body who is directing Paul and Angle) have allowed him to vote down the conservative line.  That was until his vote for TARP.  Yes, he voted for TARP.  This renders him as a turncoat to the ‘Tea Party’ voters.  So, will the movement give him a pass or will they stand on principle? 

One person who might especially wish he could change his vote on TARP is Sen. John Thune (R-SD). Thune is openly considering a White House bid in 2012, and will likely be the only GOP candidate to have voted for TARP — a serious liability when courting conservative primary voters. Recognizing this danger, Thune has tried to wriggle his way out of the vote. In an interview that will air Sunday on C-Span, Thune claims the Bush administration misled him, and accuses the Obama administration of turning the program into a “political slush fund“:

“Pronouncements were made [by the Bush administration] about how it was going to be used. It wasn’t used that way. The Obama administration expanded it and turned it into more of what I would characterize as a political slush fund in terms of the many uses of it.” [...]

“It was wrong philosophically,” Thune said. “How it was used and, in my view, misused is what I take issue with. ”

At the time, Thune said, the arguments for TARP were economically “compelling.”

“But in retrospect, it might be a different view.”

C-Span: Senator Thune