Apparently, these are the facts behind the charges: Thune defended Murky keeping her seniority on the Energy Committee and called DeMint out for expressing unhappiness over the GOP leadership to let Murkowski keep her ranking committee position. Both of those are suppositions, rather than facts.
And some of Erikson's assertions are just plain lies:
Now comes word that Thune is doing zilch, zip, nada to help tea party backed Senate candidates.
A cursory look at Thune's PAC shows Ken Buck, Ron Johnson, Marco Rubio, and Jim DeMint as candidates the PAC is highlighting.
People don't have to think Thune is the best thing since sliced bread, but this kind of brainless zombie attack is sheer stupidity.
Perhaps you missed my \sarc\ tag. Whether suppositions or facts (I really can't discern much of a difference between the two in the realm of politics; this isn't physics after all) the accusations leveled by Erickson amount to nothing. Honestly, the virulent anti-RINO contingent on this board is beginning to resemble the Spanish Inquisition. I half expect Stalin-esque show trials to commence for cadre found insufficiently supportive of Sarah Palin or suspected of harboring a Neo-Christian under his bed. Thune strikes me as the kind of fellow who can bridge the Establishment and Insurgent Right and attract a lot of moderates, too. If the Insurgents shoot this horse before it even gets to the gate they're going to frighten most of the other contenders back in the barn. Please all of you folks auditioning for the role of the Tea Party's Torquemada, chill out.