Palin helped create a movement, and then came to the continental United States to help lead it and take it to victory after victory, as she and her people (like Cruz) are poised to take us to new levels of success in 2014.
Her role in 80 to 90 races since December 2008 and her courage and inspiration as a national conservative figure, including the dark times when she was alone but fierce and charging the enemy walls (and surviving), like late 2008 and early 2009, not only inspired the rank and file conservatives but could be seen to rub off on other politicians like Perry and DeMint as they grew bolder and more outspoken in 2009.
The left wishes that Governor Palin had quit, or at least stayed out of the lower 48 by remaining in Alaska.
They probably wish she had been aborted.