Well she was in office and was hugely popular.
Book signing has finished.
“Notice the common theme :”We should rally around Palin because all the bad guys will attack her”. I hear this on talk radio regularly.”
If you hear it and read it in both conservative and liberal media, maybe you should believe it.
Actually, this isn't QUITE the "theme".
The common gut-feel of everyone is that, if she is so hated by the "right" people, people we know are, well, basically evil people that don't have our best interests in mind, then she must be the right candidate.