Rapture Ready Folks Shouldn't Run for Office

If you expect to be raptured, as I understand Sarah Palin does, you have no business seeking high office. As I understand it, the rapture will come right in the middle of the tribulation or the beginning, so the rapture ready officeholder will be nowhere to be found when things get really tough for the rest of us. We want a leader who will stay with us in the times of tribulation, not one who aims to skip out on us when the going gets tough. What good is a Commander in Chief who is AWOL at the Battle of Armageddon?