It just seems to be the most likely outcome. Romney and Gingrich aren’t stars. Most of the others simply aren’t well known enough to win in 2012. Palin is a star, and the most recent gallup polls have Palin’s recognition x strong favorability among Republicans clearly ahead of everyone else. All Republicans (96%) know her, and more have strongly favorable feelings about her than the other well known candidates. Huge rocketship zoom up to clear convincing victory just seems most likely. Palin or the Palin people here will spend their time in November or December or January that, yes, Cain is good, or yes, Bachmann is good, but it is clear that it is best not to argue who is the best conservative, but to rally around one, Palin, who does have the huge crowds, etc, etc. I think Palin will be successful with that. Someone else said that they wouldn’t be “needed”, and, if Palin’s in there, that’s a valid point.
I think the RINOs realize that Romney has a bunch of real problems, and are looking around for any number of backups. Gingrich and Romney, though, are the only 2 RINOs who are well known enough to win.
In early August of 2008, less than 1% of the US knew the name Sarah Palin. Name recognition is meaningless at this stage of the game.
The idiot savant media is shooting themselves in the foot by calling the R field lackluster and without any star power. All they are doing is paving the way for Sarah to outshine them all.