How would you ding Thune?

[Mr. Morden]

Lunar, you just spent three posts arguing with someone who thinks "proximity to a major airline hub" is a major consideration in VP selection.  Were you just bored?  Or are you actually expecting to get somewhere with this?

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Attack him with a horde of injuns prairie dogs.

[Lunar]

Lunar, you just spent three posts arguing with someone who thinks "proximity to a major airline hub" is a major consideration in VP selection.  Were you just bored?  Or are you actually expecting to get somewhere with this?

What do you think?

[HappyWarrior]

Publicize his party-line neocon George W. Bush-clone record.

Connect him to DC & C-Street scandals.

The thing is, many people like his very conservative views, that is, in the Republican Party. And while you can gain a little ground connecting him to D.C., you would need to find a specific scandal to go against him.

Honestly, his best quality going into the primaries is that he doesn't have any major scandals against him, and just about every other candidate does. Personally, I'd probably say he's too partisan, but that would only work in the General, not so much the Primaries.

Except Thune's views aren't really conservative. He is a big government neocon just like his hero Dubya.

Ummm....Those ideas are still quite popular in the Republican party.....

[pbrower2a]

Show him irrelevant to most of America. John Thune is from a very rural state that can solve most of its problems on the cheap and get away with it, and I doubt that he understands urban problems as city-dwellers and suburbanites do.

I'm sure understanding urban problems is a top line of attack in the GOP presidential primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.  

C'mon.  I've read through focus group reports and internal polling for GOP primaries in states far more urban than these states, with far more rural candidates, and nowhere does anyone think about making the GOP candidate seem too rural.  Perhaps it could be an avante-card attack, but you say these things so casually.  As if like this could be a serious line of attack when it's not.  Like zero percent chance.  Like, Sarah Palin would have a better chance at winning 40 states against Obama than "he doesn't understand city issues" being an effective attack against Thune in early GOP primaries.  

Thune has been running ads now in Western Iowa, where most of the GOP primary voters live, for like twelve years now, that's a pretty good base to start off the election with.

Your posts are like crazy theoretical to support predetermined conclusions dude.  It'd be like in 2008, making some argument about how people from the upper south don't win GOP primaries in Iowa, and how someone like Huckabee could never relate to the Iowan primary electorate...it's just throwing pasta against the wall, where just as much could be thrown supporting the completely opposite conclusion, and whatever can be justified with a coherent sentence structure is considered almost prophetic. 

You are right about the primaries. I was thinking of the general election. Thune could conceivably win the GOP nomination because Republican voters in the primaries are far different from the electorate as a whole.