Azure agrees: to be fair, palin helped mccain's numbers jump. ryan has time to get his idea across, and since he's a pretty smart and well thought out guy, you never know. Oh, agreed. He not the punchline to a joke either (though the Dems will certainly try). Just commenting on the 'truth' of the Onion piece. He's worth keeping an eye on, but terrifying? Hard to justify that at this particular point in time. But hey, rhetoric is what it is.