Listen, I'm not clairvoyant. All I can go by are the polls that I read. I haven't seen any poll that has been taken post-election or post-resignation that shows a huge up-swell of support for Palin. Maybe you have, and if you have, please post it because I'd love to read it. But, everything I've seen shows that anywhere between 60-75% of the country doesn't think she's qualified to be president. That's going to be tough to overcome.
"What about the mid-terms? Nothing there either?"
She supported Republican candidates in a year that was great for Republicans. Did those Republicans do great because of "Sarah Palin". I don't know, why don't we ask Senator-elect Miller what he thinks - oh, wait.
No one is saying Sarah Palin doesn't bring energy to the base, at least I'm not saying that. She does. And, in House races that is intensely important. But, as last month showed, that isn't always enough in statewide races, nor will it be enough in a national race (which is really just a collection of state-wide races). If it was enough, we'd have Senators-elect Angle, Miller, O'Donnell Buck etc, etc. The middle still swings state-wide elections, especially in the swing states (or purple states), and right now, the middle loathes Sarah Palin.
Great conservative candidates can win in purple states. One needs look no further than Rubio to see evidence of this. But, poor conservative candidates in these purple states usually get shellacked. That's not a coincidence.
Whom do you support?
Deleware is a deep BLUE state.
Florida has mostly been a red state, which turned a bit purple lately, but which IS back to being a red state.
You believe that you are intelligent as well as knowledgeable, yet you continue to post utter drivel as “fact” and pretend that you know far more than those whom you look down your nose at.