Yet when Republican voters were polled after Romney's defeat, on the question: "Now that Barack Obama has won re-election, who do you feel is the leader of the Republican party?" - Palin was the number one choice.
She is still the leader of the conservative right, and will trounce all comers if she runs.
If she runs, she needs to declare her candidacy early so that the conservatives will coalesce around her and we won't have a rerun of 2012 where each conservative candidate was picked off one-by-one until the unelectable RINO was left standing.