But praising Mr. Kelly does not mean that he is prepared to nominate him.
And in California, the state that is in the very worst shape of all, the Democrats seem to be prepared to nominate Attorney General Jerry Brown for governor.
Parliament cannot function without a speaker, but neither side is prepared to nominate a candidate and see their own faction fall into minority.
But let's assume that you have one of them on your side or in your pocket and they're prepared to nominate you, you still need to impress the panel.
MPs backing Eagle were on Tuesday night collecting names of colleagues who were prepared to nominate her in order to start a contest, but Watson supporters were calling for calm, insisting that Corbyn could yet stand down.
He's prepared to nominate a Supreme Court judge specifically with the intent of rolling back Roe v. Wade.
Following the decision by Fianna Fáil not to run their own candidate, there was speculation that some party members might be prepared to nominate an independent candidate.
Sarkozy accused Hollande of "arrogance" and "incompetence" and at one low point said he would accept no moral lesson from the party that had been prepared to nominate Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its candidate.
No one was prepared to nominate a sole determining factor.
So as the Republican convention prepares to nominate the least qualified and most divisive candidate in American history, the Democrats are about to nominate among the most qualified and yet also most distrusted.
People at the session, however, came away believing that Trump was preparing to nominate General James Mattis as Secretary of Defense.
