That Paul Ryan is buying $2 million worth of air time in his congressional district? Besides that he is also running for re-election to Congress and is worried about losing.

I assume he’s accepted the fact that he will not be vice-president. Nor, one day, president (I think that this current little debacle will incur brutal a round of pseudo-soul gazing that will end with anyone associated with Mitt’s campaign being excluded from higher office as a matter of course).

I assume that this is about whether he keeps his chairmanship (or position of ranking Republican, should Democrats win back the House) of the House Budget Committee and whether he can work his back into being a leading voice in the GOP.

And you can guarantee that, behind the scenes, he’s laying the groundwork for the future claim that his ‘bold, Republican ideas’ were overruled by Romney’s band of weak kneed RINOs and that this why they lost, or at least why they lost shamefully.