No, the smart voters will not vote for Ryan. The ones who would vote for Ryan are already voting for Romney.

Being a fruitcake TeaBagger won't hurt you in a TeaBagger district (the districts Romney already has)...so Ryan, or McConnell, or any other number of fascinatingly terrible candidates, can win in small districts...put them up in a national election with a vast variety of voters and they will get hammered.

Any vote that he adds, which, as noted, will likely be "zero" because there is no one...no one...who was not going to vote for Romney but now will...will be far offset by the undecided moderates who will say "no fuckin way" now to the Romney ticket.

Go back to your post about the "one in a million" ways that Romney can win the election, insert Ryan, and re-calculate.

Now they're one in a billion chances.

Fish on...

Todd