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The house elects the speaker of the house, and they can choose who they elect. There was no difference in the election. The speaker has no debates, no delegates, no votes. Playing coy bitch in that scenario is a political power move in a political setting.
The nominee is totally different. First, the nominee has to have won 8 states. That rule would need to be voted on, and changed for Kasich. Anyone else would require a complete rewriting of the rules before the vote. It would disenfranchise the voters, and undermine the whole purpose of the nomination as a public event. For Paul Ryan to successfully pull his coy bitch lying routine on actual voters? It won't work, and would probably end the party.
He is a smart man, and he is using the media the way trump does, to keep focus on himself for his 2020 run against Clinton, where he will be a very formidable candidate.
edit: apologies Crockett, I essentially repeated what you said except the last sentence
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