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

[President von Cat]

If Romney picks Ryan, he won't be able to shamelessly flip flop away from the congressman's budget plans once they come under scrutiny again. I doubt Ryan's solutions are any more resilient to Democratic attacks now than they were a year ago.

Thus, I don't think Ryan's on the ticket unless Romney is 100% ready to commit himself to his proposals for the entire campaign. He very well could be ready, but I doubt it.

Remember, Romney needs to keep this election a referendum on Obama's performance on the economy, or else he won't win. If his campaign gets distracted or put on the defensive over Ryan's budget plans, Romney will be in serious trouble. Thus I think Ryan ultimately violates the "do no harm" rule, and we can rule him out.

[President von Cat]

Jindal-Pawlenty head-to-head veep-athon in Ohio:

http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/07/rating-the-jindalpawlenty-veep.php

Makes for a good show, but Portman is as we speak working on his VP acceptance speech for Tampa.

An invasion!

...of boring...

[President von Cat]

With Romney set to unleash a relentless stream of pointlessness on Obama (cocaine, Blago, etc.), I was starting to think he'd leave the VP announcement for later.

Fixed.