Paul Ryan

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

He could be a Speaker. Speakers don't need gravitas or charisma in quite the same way that Presidents do. Look at Hastert or Boehner. Or, from what I've heard of his era, Foley.

I agree with you that he's not Presidential material, for this and other reasons. He occasionally comes across as whiny, though not as badly as Eric Cantor.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

He's lean, muscular, athletic, over 6 feet tall. I don't see a gravitas deficit in either appearance or speech.

I've often thought that he looks smaller than he is on camera, for some reason.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Nobody ever said that Josh Mandel doesn't look like my younger cousin Kenny.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Incidentally, Kenny's applying to the US Naval Academy. He's got the grades for it and he's a basketball player.