John McCormack gets Rep. Paul Ryan’s take on Mitch Daniels:

Ryan was willing to talk up the presidential prospects of another Republican: Indiana governor Mitch Daniels. “He would be a great president,” said Ryan. “He looks like your accountant, but that’s not so bad maybe.” In Ryan’s estimation, Daniels is the only potential GOP presidential candidate at the moment who really gets the ideas outlined in his Road Map and is willing to fight for them. “Are there [other] people who right now know these issues, have the principles, have the courage of their convictions, and are willing and able to defend them? Nobody comes to my mind,” Ryan said. But he added that “any one of these guys” interested in running for president could get up to speed on the Road Map.
Asked what he thinks about Mitch Daniels’ proposed “truce” on social issues, Ryan said, “I don’t see it quite the same way.” Ryan thinks it’s important to build a broad coalition to fight “social welfare statism,” but “we don’t need to ask anybody to unilaterally disarm.”
“I’m as pro-life as a person gets,” Ryan continued. “You’re not going to have a truce. Judges are going to come up. Issues come up, they’re unavoidable, and I’m never going to not vote pro-life.”

Ryan also tells McCormack that he will not run for president in 2012. But, clearly, as he told NRO in January, he wants to “help frame the debate” for what he predicts will be a “realignment election.” If Daniels runs, he’ll be lucky to have Ryan in his corner.