You're awfully sensitive if you say it "set me into argument". I merely pointed out that, indeed, she was a member (I never said "generic", which is meaningless in this context) a member of a crowd of up and comers.
She indeed was just that, and would still be at this point if not for McCain's choice of her as VP.
So after all of your back and forth efforts, we're back where we started, and you still have no evidence disproving my point. Without McCain's choice of her, and the subsequent MSM firestorm that was a result of and further fueled the interest McCain's spotlight on her created, we wouldn't be talking about her this way one year into Obama's first term.
Your subsequent posts are efforts to muddy the argument, but you've proven none of your assertions.
She was the most popular governor in America and probably the most popular elected official in America, she was the most colorful and exciting republican since Reagan and one of the most interesting politicians of American history, she was definitely heads and above any other governor of either party towards being the next political superstar.
Considering the past year, events seem to prove all that true, there are other governors but nothing like this phenomenal woman, they are now printing 2.5 million copies of her book by the way.