So I was piddling around the Sunday media and decided to see the reaction to Romney's bold choice of picking Ayn Rynd's cabana boy. Of course, CNN had the puff piece I was looking for, with a nice creamy inside.
Ryan's clandestine journey to Romney's ticket went from 'surreal to real'
By Rachel Streitfeld, CNN Political Producer
http://www.cnn.com/...
Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) -- Paul Ryan's journey from congressman to vice-presidential candidate was cloaked in secrecy worthy of a big-screen thriller.
In the culminating scene, Ryan -- policy wonk, statistics nerd, father of three -- crept through the woods behind his Wisconsin home for a clandestine pickup by a top aide Friday afternoon.
It goes on and on like this, but
in the "twists and turns" of this loosely written "article" is the lead.
Buried, but alive.
As the months progressed and the research documents on each possible name grew -- including "several years" of tax returns that each potential candidate submitted, Myers said -- all the paperwork was stored overnight in a safe in a secure room at the campaign headquarters in Boston. No copies were made of the material, and all work on the vice-presidential effort was done in that room.
And Myers said that and you didn't have a follow up question about "several years" that is currently on everyone's mind? Concerning taxes perhaps? Maybe her employer? The very guy she is vetting for, hmmm?
Ha, kidding, I know you are just CNN. You are like my high school newspaper all grown up.
Seriously though, if Romney required his own VPs to vet "several years", what is good for the goose is good for the gander, and Democrats should make political hay of this until the cows come home.