"Paul Ryan for vice president." Just a few years ago, those words were practically a thought crime. To suggest that Mitt Romney, that Massachusetts mush, would ever go for the controversial Wisconsin congressman would get you laughed out of the room.
Ryan is not a tea partyer. His approach to politics is too wonkish, too process driven and too gradualist for that. (For the more deeply steeped version, see the Rand Paul budget.) But Ryan enjoys considerable support from tea partyers, and their turnout makes his nomination possible.
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