Darth and Anakin.....

From the NY Puke, via this morning's Houston Chronicle:

Former VP Cheney

VP Elect Ryan

Ryan, Quiet for Now, Is Said to Be Planning for an Active Role

CINCINNATI — Representative Paul D. Ryan may have largely disappeared from the national spotlight down the campaign homestretch, ceding attention to Mitt Romney. But if the Republican ticket prevails, Mr. Ryan plans to come back roaring, establishing an activist vice presidency that he said would look like Dick Cheney’s under President George W. Bush.

Mr. Ryan would dedicate most evenings to dinners with senators and House members of both parties, aides said, as he steps into the role Mr. Romney promised: architect of a Romney administration’s drive to enact a budget that shrinks the government and overhauls programs like Medicare...

...The prospect of a deeply engaged vice president was described in interviews with campaign aides, close House colleagues and the few times Mr. Ryan has discussed his potential future job. Asked by a reporter last month if he expected the kind of broad responsibility for the economy that Mr. Cheney held for national security — as an aide suggested — Mr. Ryan said, “I do.”

“A large reason he was chosen was to help Romney govern,” an adviser to the campaign said. “Paul’s going to focus on being a partner.”

Democrats in the Bush years, of course, criticized Mr. Cheney for usurping for himself a kind of co-presidency.

Strange. I don't recall any Democrats raising any questions of a co-presidency with Bubba and Mrs Bill Clinton. Remember, when Billy said "You get two for one." Wouldn't just be typical leftist hypocrisy would it?  No, I didn't think so.

Mr. Ryan and Mr. Romney seem to have an effective partnership on the trail; the younger man has been deferential to a fault since he was tapped for the ticket, modifying long-held positions to conform with Mr. Romney’s. That said, Mr. Ryan has made clear that he would not be relegated only to attending funerals.

Before Mr. Ryan accepted the nomination, aides said, he had extensive conversations about his position with Mr. Romney, who assured him he would play a guiding role on fiscal and economic matters. Already seen as an intellectual leader of the Republican Party because of his sweeping House budget proposals, Mr. Ryan would wield the clout that comes from being recognized as the party’s most likely next in line for the presidency, prominent Republicans said.

“My guess is Paul will be an extraordinarily consequential vice president,” said Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a member of the Republican House leadership, who was a visitor to the Ryan family box during the Republican convention in August. “He’s going to play an important role in outlining, shaping and passing the Romney agenda from the day he walks in the door.”

“He becomes emissary in chief to the Hill,” Mr. Cole continued, “especially to House Republicans, who are likely to become the tip of the spear in terms of anything Romney wants to do.”...

...Aides to Mr. Ryan said that he received congratulatory phone calls when he was selected from former Vice Presidents Cheney and Dan Quayle, but that they did not offer him counsel on how to define a role as vice president.

Mr. Ryan’s friends and aides said his disarming personality and willingness to listen to opponents had made him well liked by lawmakers of both parties; and he would continue to build bridges through regular dinner discussions, he told aides. On a return to the House floor for a vote in September, Mr. Ryan spent several minutes in friendly conversation with Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic whip.

“I think Mitt Romney wants to be realistic, but also work in a bipartisan way,” said Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah, a Tea Party favorite who is a friend of Mr. Ryan’s. “You’re not going to get to the finish line unless you can get the House and the Senate to come together.”

Among Mr. Ryan’s advisers on the campaign trail, many of whom come from the office of House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, it is accepted wisdom that one of President Obama’s biggest failings was to hold himself apart from lawmakers. Thus, the thinking goes, the president lacked the relationships to build bipartisan support on issues like health care and debt reduction.

But Democratic lawmakers who have worked with Mr. Ryan said that he has no record of compromise. They said his idea of a meeting of the minds was sticking to his guns and persuading opponents that he was right.

“He lives in an ideological bubble,” said Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, a Democratic member of the House Budget Committee that Mr. Ryan heads. “I’ve been on the Budget Committee two other times. The lack of bipartisanship was striking” under Mr. Ryan.

I'm hearing this from a party that slammed Obamacare down the throat of the American people with no Republican input or support, same with the Porkulus Bill and Dodd's Frank. Who the hell are you to speak of a lack of bipartisanship

Hey, I can't think of a greater roll model for a Veep than Darth. If you want some real examples of what not to be, see ALGORE or our current number two, Joe Bite-Me, aka B Hussein Obama's assassination insurance policy.