If the primaries are like ‘08—independents allowed to vote in GOP race—you indeed could get Romney, Huckabee, etc.
That’s how we got McCain, indeed.
(And again say what you want about McCain but he did pick her
as his running mate. Otherwise she would be Sarah Who?
right now...wonder how the GOP ticket would have fared had someone else been at top of ticket, or were we getting Obama no matter what. What if it had been Somebody Else-Palin?)
The media will be brutal. They already are. But if she can
charm them and the people, who knows?
Governor Palin was mentioned in 2008, in fact, (on Fox) in relation to being on the short list in the running for the VP position before McCain picked her. After he chose her, the MSM, the tabloids, etc. took off after her with a vengeance. She had distinguished herself in Alaska on her own merits, unlike Hillary, who for the most part at that time had pretty much only distinguished herself due to the fact that she had once slept with, and was sort of married to, Bill Clinton.