"What makes Ryan so extraordinary is that he is not just a handsome slickster skilled at conveying sincerity with a winsome heartland affect. Pols like that come along every year. He is also (as Rich Yeselson put it) the chief party theoretician. Far more than even Ronald Reagan, he is deeply grounded is the ideological precepts of the conservative movement—a longtime Ayn Rand devotee who imbibed deeply from the lunatic supply-side tracts of Jude Wanniski and George Gilder. He has not merely formed an alliance with the movement, he is a product of it."
Jonathan Chait in New York reacts to the news that Mitt Romney has chosen Paul Ryan as a vice-presidential nominee by reposting an earlier Ryan profile.
Timothy Noah, Noam Scheiber, Michael Kazin, Nate Cohn, and Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic react as well.
As do David Frum and Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast.
As do Jane Mayer and Ryan Lizza at The New Yorker.
As does Paul Krugman at The New York Times.
And Daniel Larison reacts at The American Conservative.
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