No matter how many times you say it, and no matter how many straw men you construct, Sarah Palin was not the most "popular governor in US History" - which was the claim of the post I was responding to. It's just not factually accurate, just like it's not factually accurate about George HW Bush being the most popular president in history.
"she left office with 56% approval"
56%? Huh, I would have thought the "most popular governor in American history" would have had an approval rating higher than 56%, especially in a red state like AK. Interesting.
Now, who's lying?
As for current or former governors who are possible candidates, I believe Huckabee was pretty popular, although I don't know what his precise numbers were. Mitch Daniels enjoys strong approval ratings, although I haven't seen one since last year, and Rick Perry is a pretty popular governor. I don't think Pawlenty and Romney would be expected to have much approval at all considering they governed overwhelmingly blue states. There are other long shot candidates, such as McDonnell in VA - a guy who is VERY popular, and Christie, even in the face of fierce opposition, I believe still enjoys an approval rating above 40% - in a state that hasn't gone for a Republican President in over 20-years.
I'm not endorsing nor condemning any of these other candidates, but I am pointing out most enjoy similar job performance numbers as Palin.
Palin was the most popular Governor in America, and as far as we know the most popular Governor in American history, although that is not my claim.
Leaving office with 56% still fits in with that, and is phenomenal after enduring the most horrific, and sustained media attack in American history, that and emerging as such a conservative force on the national GOP ticket, naturally forced the liberals and the democrats in her state to see her as something besides just their beloved Governor. The later polls reflect the reaction from liberal Alaskans that we see in your posts, they had to judge her as a national conservative that could move the nation right, therefore a threat.
Your liberalism and constant attack on the more conservative candidate gets tiresome, this is just like your Trey Grayson crusade, just as nasty, just as dishonest, and just as sleazy.