Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker wrote this fair-minded profile of Congressmn Paul Ryan before he became Mitt Romney’s running mate. Indeed, Lizza considered Ryan to be no more than a long shot to be the pick.
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Tom Noonan 
I think the selection of Paul Ryan as Romney’s running mate is quite exciting. Paul Ryan captured the GOP.
Rob Portman would have been a more predictable pick imo (an able foreign policy/ Asia hand, former trade rep– someone who could in fact offer a sharper alternative to the White House’s Asia-Pac trade agenda– less polarizing perhaps) but Mr Ryan who is a well-known Tea Party darling could well galvanize the base; something that Mr Romney needs now, and few people within the conservative party could accomplish. In short, he’s a lightning rod, as much as Barack Obama was in ’08.
Please read my take on Mr Ryan’s selection http://onetenthblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/things-that-are-caesars/
Thank you and more power to your blog 🙂