You tend to love your unknown candidates, precisely because they've never run for office or done anything. If they had done such things, you'd already know about them and as such would not like them, because all conservatives have absurd lists of things they won't tolerate. Take a good long look at the candidates you love to propose, the more unknown they are, the more popular they are with Republicans who fantasize they agree with them on every topic.
Condileeza Rice? Being a spy for years means you've done nothing in public at all.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.