Examples of her leadership ability? Waiting... Waiting... Waiting.... Man this could take a long time..
a) Resurrecting and accomplishing a bi-national deal to extract and bring to the Lower 48 a major new supply of energy (Natural and LN Gas).
b) The sole Republican being touted as a presidential candidate (this exempts Rep. Inhofe) who has had the cojones to directly challenge the AGW zombies and label their "settled science" as what it is, Snake Oil.
c) Went after Alaska's Republican version of Chicago City Hall, resulting in the clean up of long standing corruption in her own party and State government.
d) Under the personal and financial pressure of a couple dozen groundless law suits by leftists acting as surrogates for the White House, made a tactical retreat from the governor's office, leaving it in the hands of a competent and trusted replacement. If you don't know that leadership can include knowing when to switch tactics and withdraw from a battle you'll win but at too high a cost, then you need to look up a certain fellow named Sun Tzu. They have at West Point.
There are more, including the leadership of walking the walk on Life under a very difficult set of circumstances and timing vis a vis her personal life and political career.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but a lot of us quite like and admire Mrs. Palin's grit and leadership. The MSM and doubters such as yourself may well prevent her from gaining the nomination or being elected, but please don't expect us to roll over and cry uncle without an argument.
Not a personal attack, but you're an idiot. That's just an obvious fact, plain and simple. Sad fact, too.
If you want to assess someone's leadership ability, just look to see if anyone is following them. If nobody is following them, then they are not much of a leader.
Everywhere Palin goes, there are tens of thousands of people showing up, some driving hundreds of miles to see her.
Everything she writes, everything she says, everything that gets written or said about her, gets reprinted by the gazillions, spread around the world online, discussed and disected in the media, at kitchen tables, on TV and radio, across this country, and even in foreign countries.
Sarah Palin is followed, more than any other person in this country, by her friends, by her enemies, and even by idiots on the internet who don't even know why they are following her (that's you, by the way).
Does anyone else in this country have such a following, even the supposed current president? No. Obama has to get his face on TV twenty times a day just to not be forgotten.
Sarah Palin is currently the leader of the Free World, simply because she is. People follow her; friends, enemies, and everyone else. That's leadership. You can't buy it and you can't sell it. You either have it or not.
Sarah has it.