His wikipedia entry is pretty amusing, at least to this point. It doesn't make a very impressive resume.

Graduating from Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville in 1988, Ryan was voted prom king and "Biggest Brown-Noser" by his fellow classmates.[12][13] In college, he briefly worked for Oscar Mayer as a Wienermobile driver.[14] He also returned to Camp Manito-wish YMCA, working as a staff member and counselor during his college summer vacations. Ryan went on to graduate from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a BA in economics and political science in 1992. He also studied at the Washington Semester program at American University and was a member of the Delta Tau Delta social fraternity. Following his studies, Ryan briefly returned to Wisconsin and worked as a marketing consultant for an earth-moving company run by his relatives.[11][15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan

Very old punch line

The Ryan plan is nothing more than a strategy for winnowing the baby boomer generation by cutting off health care for aging boomers. It's soft genocide directed at the most vulnerable. What do you expect from predatory capitalists born with silver spoons? America needs a serious realignment and radical redistribution of wealth. Reagan's legacy is the bane of civil society.

please. The more seniors and soon to be seniors realize these swine are predators the better for everyone.
Both of these jerkoffs have no clue what it means to struggle to put food on the table and keep a roof over your head.

and the late night comedy . . . it will reach a new level

I'll bet Ryan's preschool teachers made this comment about him years ago. He has obviously never matured past the developmental level of a very spoiled 2 year old who wants ALL the toys for himself and will hit, punch and kick whomever to get them.

If we lived in a moral society, the vast majority of people would view the likes of Paul Ryan as an evil sociopath who would never have a chance at ANY office.

Rmoney's a Mormon and Ryan's a good Catholic...

has been all along.

He LOOKS the part, but in reality is simply is the empty headed vessel for the republican party to once again repackage its insane economic/budget disaster to pitch it to the country at large.

He won't be Palin bad, or even Romney bad.

Because he looks good, the right will scream HE IS A STAR, which of course was what they spend two months four years ago dismissively referring to President Obama as, and the "liberal" media will gush about him because that is what they do for all of the never ending string of republican STARS that come along.

He will be a BOLD pick, because the republicans always are bold and the democrats never are.

But, this is the same twit who voted for EVERYTHING that Bush did to create the current economic budgetary situation. I heard watched an interview with him a month or two ago, where the interviewer said, "we know you want tax cuts, tell us what you would do with the budget and economy beyond tax cuts." Ryan babbled incoherently for 15 seconds before spending the next minute and a half talking about ... tax cuts ...

His budget does not take the country out of deficit until 2028.

2028.

But, we are going to have to be subjected to weeks of how he is SERIOUS before the "liberal" media will allow for that simple truth to be accepted.

He refuses to touch Defense spending, and slashes taxes for the rich. That adds up to LARGER deficits. Cutting all the little programs doesn't amount to a hill of beans compared to those two. I think the math works out to cutting all the little programs to zero wouldn't balance that budget.

this will get votes in the South for sure. These Repugs have been using the Christian Right, they are not truly of the faith! No wonder the Catholic church has attacked Paul Ryan and his budget!

The future presidential competition is kept out of this race. Typically a very insecure or loser POTUS candidate picks a dead-ender. As hard it is to do that in the terrible GOP field where even Palin can keep resurfacing her smile, they managed to get an already polarizing useful idiot out of his Congressional power seat and supplant the miserably doubtful 2016 field everyone has been speculating on with little enthusiasm.

They can cut the rough edges off their wicked agenda by the human sacrifice of Ryan and flushing what does not currently work politically down with him so that the next guy can run down the middle. No more far right clown shows, no wasted wannabes of the "first" rank. No surrender, on the other hand, on ANY of the crap, not a nickel given back to the people or a single hope to the nation.

It was that or flounder. It was that or make the campaign all about 2016 contenders. This is another surrender to the very first strategy that was supposed to be temporary. Distracting noise to cover over their awfulness and the real awfulness never surrendered. A sham until the automatic kneejerk political axioms of GOP strategy kicked in because of the political distress they created to blame Obama with.

They had moderates, lesser knowns, better candidates- whom the GOP powers fear more than the Dems because people might actually empower sanity AND someone outside the circle. Bad enough with Palin but any new contender with some sane and service oriented personality above their control? Not their chess game.

You write that "they managed to get an already polarizing useful idiot out of his Congressional power seat...." What I've read is that Ryan can run for both offices at once (the way Lieberman did in 2000).

Of course, the national campaign will have costs and benefits for his own re-election effort. The Democrats might be able to paint him as being out of touch, and he simply won't have as much time to campaign. On the other hand, he'll have the cachet of a national figure and will be getting enormous free media.

He might help the Dems get back the House. Then, even if re-elected, he'd lose his Budget Committee chairship.

The GOP abandons no one in the club. More probable that he might go for a Senate seat in Wisconsin and do his damage in the body that has thwarted the House plans. Too much wishful thinking on my part. The whole American power structure makes it nearly impossible to get rid of any GOPer unless they break the law AND completely fall out of favor AND get too big for their appointed position AND tick off the powers that be AND... Well, We still have Gingrich, incredibly and even Palin. Decent Dems with long careers of public service and no other troubles could be wiped off the map in one news cycle.