When Sarah gets in it’s over for MB’s campaign.
When Sarah gets in she’ll pretty much wrap up the nomination fairly quickly, unless it turns out that she’s not good at campaigning. If I remember 2008 properly, Sarah Palin is excellent at campaigning. Because she’s great at campaigning, she’s the most popular most famous republican.
She might want to consider as her VP someone who is both a true conservative (not a RINO like Bush) and someone who can still appeal to independents and even some democrats to take over after 8 years.
Typically, it’s hard to find someone who is both extremely conservative and popular with independents.