IN the end, I think that is the real problem he won’t be able to overcome.
It makes no difference what should be, or could be. Perception is reality when it comes to voting. If the voters won’t vote for you, there’s really nothing you can do about it.
It’s why I think Palin has a too-tough road to cross. She is loved by a solid minority, but hated or seen as a non-player by a solid majority. It will be hard for her to convert enough people from the 2nd group to end up with a majority of votes in national election, even if she might be able to get a primary victory.
Without question Romney has a yuck factor.
Without question Palin is a charismatic winner, Palin is having to deal with the worst press that we have ever seen and she has never had a chance to counter it with a personal national campaign, yet even at this low point she is where she is based solely on herself, she has yet to even have her first marketing campaign.
Palin’s likability is proven by her incredible string of election wins that are driven solely by herself, not money, power, name, or any of the other hooks that politicians use to catapult them into politics, Romney was typical in that sense with a famous name and a famous political family, power, wealth, celebrity, a carefully groomed persona, publicity and an accumulated war chest and political alliances built before he entered politics openly.
Palin started out in her little home town with people that knew her and her school teacher parents.
Palin truly was the most popular Governor in America before September 2008 with approval numbers in the stratosphere, reaching as high as 93%, that fact reveals the truth that the national media cannot hide, she generates energy because she is likable and trustworthy, she inspires confidence and exudes a noble spirit, people see in her something decent and pure American and real, that is why she can let the cameras follow her into unbelievable situations yet she looks totally comfortable and natural and competent in them, for instance working and talking on camera on a commercial fishing boat. Palin can do things that no politician would try and it is because she is not posing, or faking a photo op, she is real and natural every where she is.