Paul Ryan Rules Out 2012 Presidential Run, Talks Up Mitch Daniels

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Like a number of conservatives in Washington and 13,496 fans on Facebook, Pamela Wolffe thinks Republican congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin should run for president. “He is my ideal candidate,” Wolffe, a psychiatrist in Ryan’s district, told me during last night’s Wallworth County GOP boat trip on Lake Geneva, located an hour southwest of Milwaukee. “He can do anything he wants,” said Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Ron Johnson of a Ryan presidential run. “That’s totally up to Paul.”