let us know where to mail you the postcard from the trail. Sounds like you’re taking your seat in the spectator area.
Some day, maybe, you will be mature enough to come to the realization that if you really like and admire someone you will advise them to do what is best for them, not what is best for you.
There are excellent potential candidates who have no life beyond that point at which the concrete ends and the rest of the world begins.
Encourage them to run.
If they will not, that will be a different matter.
If she decides that is the most important thing to her, I will vote and I will contribute as I have in the past.