Does It Have To Be Paul Ryan Now? Share this: When questions remain unanswered, they invite others, with less of a stake or of any agenda, to supply responses. If six friends can't decide where to go to dinner, but one really wants to go to a movie, there is a good chance the gang will end up at a prime time showing of "Ted." Such appears to be the case with Mitt Romney's long anticipated announcement of a vice-presidential pick. For months the pundits have ping-ponged between Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Tim Pawlenty and Rob Portman. At various times, a decision seemed imminent, only for Mr. Romney to escape to Europe, or on a bus tour or somehow push the story off for another day. And without a pick forthcoming from him, the Republican Party's fiscal conservative wing appears to have come up with their own pick: Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan. The case for Mr. Ryan is that he best exemplifies the nature and stakes of this election. More than any other politician, the House Budget Chairman has defined those stakes well as a generational choice about the role of government and whether America will once again become a growth economy or sink into interest-group dominated decline. Against the advice of every Beltway bedwetter, he has put entitlement reform at the center of the public agenda -- before it becomes a crisis that requires savage cuts. And he has done so as part of a larger vision that stresses