And you're calling the other posters on here simple!
Maybe you just woke up and logged on for the first time here a few weeks ago...that's the only thing I can think of to support what you have stated here. I cannot remember anyone on this forum strongly supporting Romney during the primaries. For the most part, the CONCERN was that Romney would be like a Bush Sr (who was a terrible president), and not like Reagan at all.
Ryan wasn't needed to fire up the Republican base. Obama did that. Romney could have picked a leftist Rino like McCain to be his VP and I still would have been fired up to get rid of Obama.
I am guessing Obama is keeping Biden on the ticket to appeal to the voters with IQs lower than 50, which is to say he is there to fire up the dem base (see how fun making those kind of statements can be!).