Ryan may be a good man and a man with ideas. But who picks a VP for ideas? Biden hasn’t had an idea in the past decade or two. Romney has just handed Obama four more years on a platter. VP is picked for image and votes. The image is too WASP. Sorry, I am one, but there it is. Against our semi-black president you shouldn’t look too white. It’s not hip. The unthinking and hip vote, the same vote Obama got before, is going for him, along with a bunch of union folks. Ryan brings only votes Romney already had.
No he didn’t hand the election to Obama. It’s a very good choice and Trende gets it wrong. Ryan would be great at rebutting opposition to his plan. Romney was going to be hit with it anyway from Dems. And VP candidates don’t deliver states.
Ryan is Catholic, and I think this election will bring more and more Catholics into the party, and Democrats will actively drive Catholics out of theirs. Since Catholics have been roughly 50-50 democrat and republican, this will shift to the republicans favor.
You expect a Republican to get the hipsters? It doesn’t matter who the VP selection is.