If what you say is true, he will become another Pawlenty-like dead letter.
Which was a very great thing indeed, considering that the two godfathers who gave us Obozo were Tommy Dasschole and Vernon Jordan.
It would appear the Dims are working on Thune furiously .... to shorten the public distance between his performance and Dasschole's. (Alternative scenario: The RiNOate is prepping Thune as an Alternative VP Chumburger to support a RiNO presidential bid -- think Mittens or T-Paw, or whoever it was that NRO was pushing the other day -- see? I've forgotten aleady, he must have been amazing </sarc>.)
If Thune is not careful, he could set the stage for a Dasschole comeback. You know better than I, that little Tommy's eyes glow in the dark with his power need -- think Bram Stoker's Dracula.