Now that she has become unencumbered (spelling?) by McCain, we will really get to see what Palin can do. McCain camp allowed a lot of damage to be done to her and she was not able to defend herself appropriately. Now is her time.
I don't think McCain's campaign handlers had a clue how to best utilize her. It'd be like a team having Adrian Peterson and being content to only throw him an occasional screen passes.
You've made me wonder if this was purposeful. I have a truly hard time understanding why the campaign staff seemed to go out of their way to make her canadicy so questionable.