Beto O’Rourke shouldn’t run for president.

It’s not because he wouldn’t run a strong campaign. The man is charismatic and likable, capable of inspiring intense devotion among his followers (one of his 2012 campaign workers took a year off school to work for him). He’s not only managed to beat an eight-term, establishment-favored Democratic incumbent (albeit with the help of some family-backed Super PAC cash); he came within a hair’s breadth of taking a Republican Senate seat in Texas by running a fairly progressive campaign.

Nor is it because he has some terrible career-ending scandal waiting in the wings. O’Rourke has been open and contrite about his decades-old arrest record — which didn’t stop him from winning his seats in the El Paso City Council or the House, and didn’t appear to register much in this most recent, fairly nasty, Senate race. The less said about his opposition’s lame attempts to use his punk rock days against him the better. And while his Pelosi-like profiting off IPOs while in Congress was unseemly, he quickly got rid of both the stocks and the money he made when he realized the ethical problems involved.