Popular Governors make great candidates, out of work guys like Romney should go buy himself a senate seat somewhere.
If only Palin was a popular Governor. In fact, she's a deeply unpopular governor on the national stage.
Your adage works when Governors run for the first time. Palin has already run for national office, and she has the battle scars to prove it. In fact, some are still deep and bleeding wounds.
As I said, Palin's negatives aren't go to ebb until she can put herself in a position to build credibility. She's not going to be able to build credibility in a state that's almost as geographically far-removed from the US as you can get with a population that wouldn't make it into the the 20 cities