Romney to announce running mate on Saturday @9am ET in Norfolk, VA

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Hahaha Romney is seriously considering picking Ryan? Awesome.

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I know Rice was mostly floated as a distraction... but after a bad overseas trip and lagging numbers, she's a risk I'd look into. Almost every swing state poll (and some safe-D states), show Rice being a significant help for Romney.

Until there's a revolt at the convention over a pro-choice VP.

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On VP selection, look to Wikipedia:

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In the Internet age, vetting includes not only a rigorous look at a candidate's past, but rigorous editing of his or her public record. It's a simple but oft overlooked point. Kudos to Sifry for keeping it in mind.[/quote]

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Imagine the scene at the convention when Scott Walker announces the next VP of the US, his good friend: Paul Ryan! 

A lib's worst nightmare?

hah... hahahahaha, haha. Good one.

Anyway the obvious "problem" with Paul Ryan is that it completely changes the narrative of the campaign (or at least what Romney wants the narrative of the campaign to be; he's done an incredibly poor job of actually shifting the discussion to this) from a referendum on Obama's handling of the economy to (at best) a choice between the Paul Ryan budget and the Obama budget or (at worst) a referendum on the Ryan budget. And I have no idea why Romney would rather fight on those grounds.

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Mittens will be close to deranged if he does not pick Portman. Is he?

Deranged? No offense to Portman but why would this guy appear to be a Messianic figure?

It's not that Portman is a Messianic figure; it's that he's so obviously a better choice than Ryan or Pawlenty.