Palin can beat Obama and win in 2012 if the right can resist running or encouraging a third party.
It's not a question of the right resisting anything. It's a question of liberty minded conservatives finding candidates that are truly, deeply, intellectually, ideologically liberty minded conservatives with convictions, that can articulate and fight for the truth, and give God the victory or the consequences.
Palin, DeMint, Rand Paul are all viable. Who will God choose?