No, you’re wrong.
Sarah wasn’t running for president and she wouldn’t have gotten the nomination if she had been.
People realize now that McCain was the right guy for the nomination because he had the courage and maverick streak to select Sarah, and they compliment each other as no-nonsense reformers.
Mitt Romney wouldn’t have picked Sarah Palin, neither would have Fred Thompson or Mike Huckabee.
John McCain is our guy, in part because Sarah Palin is his gal.
True, to an extent. The reason people like Palin is that she's a real, down to earth woman who can rise to the occasion.
Unfortunately, the way our current system is configured, you need to have what I'll generously call 'major mental health issues' in order survive the two year gauntlet of running for President. Palin is not an egomanic like, well, the other three people on the ticket. She's just who she is. Normal people are not going to go through two years of running for President.
Now, two MONTHS, sure, why not?
Anyway, the idea of putting someone halfway normal in the White House is a lot more appealing than putting in someone who's eyes blink open in the morning, and who's first waking thought is 'I should be President'.
It's like the old line about replacing Congress with the first 500 names in the phone book. Americans just distrust career politicians, and deep down, crave someone normal.