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Well the GOP leadership will not decide Palin’s bid for the 2012 nominee, HER FOLLOWING will. AND judging by the MASS APPEAL, she should have it locked up.

Money and connections is what decides all of that. Money pays for the advertising, etc. The typical voter is not like you or I or anybody else that cares enough to read or post online. They are too heavily influenced by the flashy commercials. That's why we ended up with people like George W. Bush or John McCain instead of Conservatives. With McCain, a lot of the big money donors decided he was safer than a Mormon or a Christian like Huckabee and that he would appeal to a broader audience. When you get that kind of money involved, you can take a last place candidate and push them to the forefront.

Maybe Sarah can prove me wrong, but the big money donors are not going to support her - they shy away from candidates from losing tickets. There hasn't been a losing VP candidate who went on to win a later election since we moved to the Presidential candidates choosing their running mates in the '40s and '50s. You have to go back to FDR to find a losing VP candidate who eventually became President, and FDR was from a time when VP candidates were selected by the conventions and not by the Presidential candidate..