A road I am being asked to travel

Exactly because of the spirit of service and determination that abides within these prospective leaders, they instead elected to defer and accord the role and responsibility to my person. The circumstances in which both our party and country find themselves mean we cannot always, on our own, decide on or choose which roles we must play in the unfolding political narrative.

I am inclined to borrow the words of a wise leader, who upon being summoned to take high office declared "I feel like a criminal who is going to the place of his execution, who will lose the benefit of his healthy body for an ocean of difficulties without that competency of political skill or abilities and inclination necessary to manage high office."