By the way, doesn't Palin's rise remind you of this person:
When Thatcher rose up the Conservative Party ranks in the UK, everyone dismissed her. But in the end, she became perhaps the greatest British Prime Minister of the 20th Century besides one Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill.
I see Palin's rise on almost the same track.
She is a quick learner, a person with a good heart, genuine to the core. She will do just fine as a two term President carrying us into the 2020s.