She runs for President, people see her, directly, in debates, unfiltered. They like her or they don’t. When do the high negatives become a problem? November 2012? If Palin can’t get the message out as the nominee, lower her unfavorables by just being herself, I dunno.
Your point seems to be that being the most attacked politician in America, with her image hammered at constantly by every form of media, from news to comedy, helps her and other conservatives that are victim of the treatment, it doesn’t.
Sarah Palin shouldn't have had the negatives or the frivilous lawsuits (which were all dismissed, save for one on a technicality) but she got them anyway, because she just has to be destroyed for being genuine and conservative, so now she has an uphill battle, and you think it's just a matter of "They like her or they don’t."
Sheesh.