Steve-
Responsibility breeds self-esteem, standards of conduct and trust between parties.
This is your theory. Regardless of your theory, it is inevitable that a nomination of RK will raise many opposing voices (including my own), especially now that you have announced your plans to so many parties. A sysop nomination, like a deletion, must have near unanimous support to be successful. I see no reason to go into a process that is unlikely to have any outcome other than bickering over several days or weeks and finally the removal of the nomination text because no consensus has been reached.
This is not about your "rights" to nominate other persons. This kind of insistence is also what characterized Lir's behavior. Like Lir, you insist on embarking on a mission that will only plant the seeds of alienation and accomplish nothing productive whatsoever.
If you think RK needs to be a sysop to learn responsibility, then ask him on his talk page if he *wants* to be a sysop and inform him of the process of requesting sysop access. Feel free to tell him that you would support that request. But it is silly and pointless for you to extensively campaign on behalf of someone else who never asked you to do so.
Regards,
Erik