I disagree with all your points against Palin.
Palin did reduce a lot of government and government corruption in Alaska, didn’t take federal government money etc..
Did you read her book? To get her side of the issues anyone that wants to criticize Palin should her book first.
It is my opinion that politicians are mostly statists/Marxists with lower morals than ambulance chasing lawyers. It baffles me that people want an “experienced” politician. It’s these life-long politicians like the Kennedys’s , Mary Landrieu , etc. that have ruined this country. Palin is a conservative, and better in so many ways than any politician i’ve seen.
I do not though think that she is qualified to run the most powerful country ever on this planet, especially given the economic mess that the next POTUS will be shackled with from day one.
I do not think that she can get 70 million Americans to vote for her. There has already been too much controversy and damage. The manner in which she quit her post is a deal killer for a lot of us (yes, I saw her resignation speech and I read the book). She will be asked a version of this...
"Mrs. Palin, we know what it took to get you to quit as governor, what would it take to get you to quit as President?"
It doesn't matter if that's fair, it matters only that it's real.
She is as polarizing as obozo, who has lost the middle/independent vote. Nobody can win at the national level without that middle/independent bloc. For these reasons and others I do not see her getting those 70,000,000 votes.
My concern is that those who are unquestioning followers will step away from the process and give us another four years of disaster out of spite.