In other words, a candidate won't suddenly be "ready" after a period of being "unready"; rather, readiness should be thought of as a risk-reduction process.
While Trump was feeding Palin celebrity pizza, Iowa Republicans were in New Jersey begging Gov. Chris Christie to get into the race, despite the fact that Christie has already declared himself to be unready and the residents of his home state have declared him to be unpopular.
But millions of them are unready for school, poorly educated and unprepared to face the future.
Nonetheless, he was said to be unready to respond to the appeal.
It felt like the country was frightened, unsure of what it now is, unready for the great changes it must make, and ill-fitted for the robust debates it must have.
While the administration has gone to extraordinary lengths in the past two years to coax the North out of its shell, it is unready and unable to answer those questions.
Numerous school systems, wary of challenging students they believe are unready, hold the view that AP, IB and AICE are appropriate only for those with A or B averages.
The canon chancellor, sympathetic to the Occupy movement, noisily resigns, the verger feels the building is unready, and the temporising bishop of London still holds out hope of reaching some accord with the protesters.
Yet, of course, my friends and other interlocutors were unready to admit such a thing — they considered themselves to be caught between two raging Molochs and just wanted to stay out of the way until things calmed down.
The flat-footed failure of his White House to forestall Mr Jeffords's revolt has also revived worries that his Texan inner circle is unready for the job of managing Washington.Above all, Mr Bush needs to adjust his policy priorities.
Unlike Tennyson's six hundred, the Iraqi army is unready to ride into any valley of death on orders from Baghdad.
