On yesterday’s Meet the Press, former Rep. Dick Armey chided congressional Republicans for tiptoeing around Rep. Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future”: “The fact that he has only 13 co-sponsors is a big reason why our folks are agitated against the Republicans as well as the Democrats,” said Armey, chairman of FreedomWorks. “The difference between being a cosponsor of Ryan and not is a thing called courage.”

So which Republican candidates have got that thing?

It’s unclear, at least with respect to Linda McMahon, the Republican senatorial candidate in Connecticut. In an interview with National Review Online, her spokesman, Ed Patru, says she supports Representative Ryan’s proposals for discretionary spending, but not his reforms of Social Security and Medicare.

“She has never endorsed a specific entitlement reform,” says Patru. “There are no plans on that end for the campaign at all. She believes any plans for Social Security or Medicare must be divorced from the hyper-partisan arena of the campaign and be done in the legislative process.”

Patru stresses that McMahon supports a freeze in federal workers’ pay and a rollback of discretionary spending to its level in 2008. Still, McMahon’s stance is less than a profile in courage.