gohmert said the same thing, he wouldn't do it. if only he could be persuaded to say yes. or maybe we should pay attention to the process that got us here. the process that politically killed off john boehner and kevin mccarthy and maybe ask why that same process wouldn't kill off the chances of paul ryan as well? and if paul ryan isn't viable. if he arguably the only widely known name on this chart, if only name that people say nice things about, if he's not even a viable candidate for speaker, then maybe none of the people who have been mentioned as potential speakers are actually viable as potential speakers. maybe none of the 20 of them could be elected speaker. we went through this process earlier this year and had the giant chart of all the potential republican candidates for president and when a few said they wouldn't run, like john bolton said they wouldn't run, and rick snyder said he wouldn't run, they said they wouldn't run we poofed them off the list. there are a lot of republicans still running for president, but