And the only way to provide that answer is by coercion, tyranny, and a government so powerful, intrusive, enormous, and exploitive that a dictator of Stalin/Hitler/Pol Pot proportions is absolutely necessary to keep that answer coming.
Put it this way: If Condoleezza Rice should say, "If nominated I won't run. If elected I won't serve," we will nominate and elect her anyway.
She can sit in the oval office and play the piano--or go ice skating--or do any of the impressive things that she does so well--maybe some new ones. Maybe she'll play golf like Eisenhower did. We'll be far better off than we would be with the alternative.
Condi Rice is an absolute defender of the second amendment due to a gut level personal experience she had while a child.
She remembers her father and other neighborhood fathers standing guard over their street with shotguns during the racial problems in the area.
Due to that experience, she has stated the absolutely defends the right of Americans to keep and bear arms.
That's something you can't get in school, by looking at polls or anywhere else.