Historically, early frontrunners for a party nomination usually do not end up being nominated. Gov Reagan was not the frontrunner in the year he won the nomination.
Well, in case you haven't noticed Sarah Palin is not the front-runner with the GOP Party machinery ... LOL ...
She's only the front-runner with the rank and file conservative in American -- and here we're talking about two different things ... :-)
She shot herself in the foot by endorsing McCain and there’s no way of telling how badly she hurt herself.
But the picture of her crawling on her belly to lick the hand that beat her, it isn’t a pretty one.