Fox DEKERNELS Children of the Corn Candidate Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan went on Fox in his first solo interview as GOP veep nominee and like his boss, spent most of his time running from his accomplishments. Shockingly, Brit Hume allowed him to run but not hide.

Ryan repeatedly tried to deflect attention from his own highly controversial budget proposal in an interview with Fox News’s Brit Hume Tuesday.[...]

Hume didn’t buy the suggestion that the Romney-Ryan ticket wasn’t running on Ryan’s budget plan, and the interview focused largely on Ryan’s budget package. In one exchange on balancing the budget, Hume objected when Ryan tried to talk about Romney’s plan — which has drawn fire for being vague at best. Hume insisted Ryan talk about his own economic vision, which doesn’t bring the budget into balance for decades.

Ryan couldn’t predict when Romney’s plan would balance the budget.

Hume: The budget plan you’re now supporting would get to balance when?

Ryan: Well, there are different — the budget plan that Mitt Romney is supporting gets us down to 20 percent of GDP government spending by 2016. That means get the size of government back to where it historically has been. What President Obama has done is he brought the size of government to as high as it hasn’t been since World War II. We want to reduce the size of government to have more economic freedom.

Hume: I get that. What about balance?

Ryan: I don’t know exactly what the balance is. I don’t want to get wonky on you but we haven’t run the numbers on that specific plan. The plan we offer in the House balances the budget. I’d put a contrast. President Obama, never once, ever, has offered a plan to ever balance the budget. The United States Senate, they haven’t even balanced, they haven’t passed a budget in three years.

Hume: I understand that. But your own budget, that you —

Ryan: You are talking about the House budget?

Hume: I’m talking about the House budget. Your budget will be a political issue in this campaign.

Ryan: The House budget doesn’t balance until the 2030s under the current measurement of the CBO baseline.

Here is a different TPM article watching Wonder Boy wriggle from a different angle:

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Mitt Romney's newly selected vice presidential running mate, on Tuesday night struggled to explain why his budget, which has been embraced by both Romney and the GOP, sustains the same Medicare cuts of which his campaign is now attacking President Obama.

"Doesn't your budget also cut Medicare for the same amount?" Fox News' Brit Hume asked in an evening interview.

"Only President Obama raids $716 billion from the Medicare program," Ryan responded. "He cut $716 billion from the Medicare program to pay for Obamacare. We don't do that."

"You're not saying you don't contemplate in the budget planning significant savings of $500 billion in Medicare, though, are you?" pressed Hume.

"No. We can get in the complicated baseline issues but that is the current law," Ryan returned. "So what we do is we keep with the current law in our budget."

"But it's the case that in the budget you passed through the House of Representatives, significant savings of upward of $500 million in Medicare," Hume continued.

"We do not add cuts to the Medicare program in the House budget," Ryan said. "We have don't take more cuts to Medicare. We simply prevent the raid of Medicare so those dollars go to set up the life of Medicare."

So now we have a glimpse of what Wonder Boy's role will be and what this entire campaign is going to sound like.

Whenever Ryan is pressed to offer specific details he's going to say 'I don't want to get to wonky or get into the base line issues. Just trust me and my fawning press about how serious of of a budgeter I am.'

Like his boss, Ryan is going to repeatedly disavow his signature achievement--his budget--and make outrageous claims about the President spending more money than every President ever.

Paul Ryan is their best and brightest? He can't make a case for his greatest accomplishment in 13 years of public service?

Bring it on Bainman and Robin. Watching your imminent, well-earned defeat is going to be a delight.