Salon Magazine: 'Could Mitt Romney Take Paul Ryan Down With Him?'

Source:Salon Magazine.

"Grumbling from conservatives about Paul Ryan’s muted presence in the White House race could be a positive development for the Wisconsin congressman’s long-term political prospects. But it’s also possible that Ryan will end up ruing the day he accepted the offer to team up with Mitt Romney.

When Ryan was picked, many on the right hoped that the GOP ticket would run on Ryan’s budget blueprint, which calls for radical tax cuts for the wealthy, sweeping reductions in the federal social safety net, and the transformation of Medicare into a quasi-voucher program.

Instead, Ryan has been forced to present himself as a generic vice presidential candidate, disowning his own program and running on Romney’s intentionally non-specific platform.  This puts him in line with the Romney brain trust’s conviction that the weak economy will ultimately prompt swing voters to turn on Obama and that Romney will best be positioned to capture their votes if he’s seen as a competent but inoffensive protest vehicle." 

From Salon Magazine 

I hate to sound cliche and act like some cliche TV news reporter who at the end of his piece, doesn't have the answers to his own story and simply ends it by saying like: "Only time will tell. Back to you, Bob in the studio." but we'll know in about 6 weeks from now. 

If President Obama win reelection in a modern blowout, 10 points or so in the popular vote and wins North Carolina, Indiana, and Missouri, to go along with Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and Florida, then of course both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will get a lot of well-deserved blame for that. You don't believe me, just look at Geraldine Ferraro's political career post-1984, after she ran with Walter Mondale, who was a destined landslide loser to President Ronald Reagan.

But if Romney-Ryan come close, maybe we don't know who won the election until Wednesday of that week or something like that, Representative Ryan would get credit for getting Mitt Romney very close to the finish line and adding a real spark to a pretty dull and sluggish presidential campaign.