Was Ryan a good pick or not?
No. I remember reading in
Double Down that the Obama camp were puzzled by the Ryan pick because he was an obviously bad choice due to his link to House Republicans, but I don't think Romney had very many credible alternatives and Ryan was seen as the person most compatible with Romney. There was a list of eleven (Kelly Ayotte, Chris Christie, John Cornyn, Mitch Daniels, Bill Frist, Mike Huckabee, Bob McDonnell, Tim Pawlenty, Rob Portman, Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan) that was then reduced to a shortlist of five (Christie, Pawlenty, Portman, Rubio and Ryan). Of those five, only Portman and Rubio seem like good choices to me.
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