Do you want her to win or not? She’s not viable by herself. She either needs a strong candidate to take the lead or she needs to deepen her record. Alaska is not a major state, like California, Texas, or the North England states. Being governor of Alaska is like being the mayor of Los Angeles or Chicago. I would not advise the mayor of either city to run for president, regardless of the flawless record they might have.
My advice would to to move forward and upward, but not to take such a leap forward. If they did a sterling job in Congress that they became more than a junior senator, it would work.
The leadership skill required to run Alaska is no different to running California or Texas. You make the mistake of assuming simply because a state have more people that somehow it make California or Texas governor special. Ignoring their politics for a sec, but your argument suggest someone like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates in your mind is not qualified to be president, because the ppl they manage are tiny. In fact if you look at previous president, how many of them were governor’s of large states? What I see here is double standard. You’re putting Palin on a bar so high that makes her unqualified yet lower the bar for everyone else. In fact, no gop nominee from ron paul, hermain cain, romney or huckabee would qualify