A Risky Rationale Behind Romney's Choice of Ryan  —  When is it rational to take a big risk?  —  When the status quo wasn't proceeding in a way that you felt was favorable.  When you have less to lose.  When you needed — pardon the cliché, but it's appropriate here — a “game change”.

Romney rolls the dice  —  Has there ever been a campaign that went, literally overnight, from being about nothing to leaping neck-deep into the most treacherous, dangerous issue in American politics?  Until last night, I thought Romney was running for president because he wanted to be president, full stop.

Why Ryan Makes Romney's Tax Problem Even Worse  —  Already, there is a curious bit of conventional wisdom taking hold that Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan is shrewd because it will draw attention from Romney's ever-more apparent weaknesses, notably the more rapacious elements of his work …

How Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Tricked the Press  —  Mitt Romney decided on Paul Ryan on Aug. 1, the day after returning from his trip overseas to the Olympics in London and to Israel and Poland.  The candidate and his campaign kept the secret for nine days, according to campaign sources.

Romney forced to backpedal after thorny Virginia endorsement  —  Richmond, Virginia (CNN) - Mitt Romney's campaign awkwardly backpedaled Saturday after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee waded into a contentious GOP primary fight in Virginia during his second campaign event alongside his new running mate Paul Ryan.

It's Paul Ryan's Party: With Romney VP Pick, Movement Conservatives Openly Control GOP at Last  —  I'm not sure I believe in Freudian slips, and Barack Obama made a similar mistake when he introduced Joe Biden four years ago, but what the hell: When Mitt Romney slipped up this morning …

Why Paul Ryan?  —  I did not think that Mitt Romney would choose the Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate.  Nor did I think that Romney should pick Ryan as his number two.  But now that he's done so, let's consider what might have made the presumptive Republican nominee choose the way he did.

CNN's Candy Crowley Claims Some GOPers Think Ryan Pick ‘Some Sort of Ticket Death Wish’  —  As NewsBusters has been noting all Saturday morning, now that Paul Ryan has been chosen as Mitt Romney's running mate, the goal of the Obama-loving media is to rip him to shreds.

In Ryan pick, echoes of Obama's own selection of Vice President Biden  —  For two men who are so different in almost every respect, President Obama and Mitt Romney have chosen running mates with strikingly similar cultural contours.  —  In 2008, the youthful, black, Democratic son …

TPM2012  —  Mitt Romney: I'm Running With Paul Ryan, But Not On The Ryan Budget  —  Within minutes of physically embracing his new running mate Paul Ryan on a Norfolk, Va., stage, Mitt Romney was distancing himself from Ryan's controversial House budget proposal.

Why I Love Paul Ryan  —  He's what a Republican should be: an honest, open-minded, solution-oriented fiscal conservative.  —  A wonderful thing has happened for this country.  Paul Ryan will be the Republican nominee for vice president.  —  Ryan is a real fiscal conservative.