From Ryan, No Explanation

Romney's running mate doesn't have the time to go into specifics:



On its Facebook page, the Democratic Party jumped:

Mitt Romney announced his economic plan 392 days ago—yet his running mate says it'd take too long to explain the math. It's time to admit they're dodging the question because the middle class won't like the answer.

And Jonathan Chait nails it:

Wallace asks the question seven times, and Ryan fills one minute and 48 seconds avoiding it. Finally, the final time Wallace asks Ryan to give him the math, Ryan asserts, “It would take me too long to go through all the math.” There was plenty of time if he hadn’t spent two minutes dodging the question! In any case, the math doesn’t take a long time to explain, but Ryan doesn’t want to explain it, because it would reveal unavoidable and unpopular trade-offs in the campaign’s tax plan that he’d rather conceal....Ryan is still an extremely skilled bullshitter — vastly better at it than Romney. But he’s actually seeing, for the first time, questions that attempt to pry information out of him, rather than the batting practice lobs to which he’s accustomed. He’s going to emerge from the race with his legend punctured. 

Paul Ryan is still the new-Gingrich philosopher king of the Republican Party, as this recent WaPo article portrays so well. Allen West, for one, has called Ryan the "intellectual epicentre" of the GOP. Which is really saying something, don't you think?