The glee democrats are expressing about the pick of Ryan suggests one of two things: by over reacting they're trying to make it seem obvious how awful the man and his ideas are so the lazy and ignorant just accept it as fact; or, trapped inside the liberal echo chamber, they really can't see the virtues of the guy or how his abilities truly threaten to reveal just how inept at everything but lies and demagoguery the Obama presidency has been.
Although I guess there's another option - their glee is justified, because people like me who have been enthused about Ryan for a couple of years now fail to understand that the value of the man will be lost on a simple minded electorate - which would be ironic since I constantly talk about how an ignorant and unsophisticated electorate threatens the viability of a democracy in complicated times. In that sense, I guess my hope for a Ryan success [interesting that I'm talking about a Ryan not a Romney success] would amount to something of a plea to our better angels. Didn't know I was such a romantic.
