I'd have to agree. The antidote to that is to have a larger-than-life stage presence (Reagan) or to have Ivy League degrees (GWB had Yale and Harvard). Even Reagan had to wait until he was almost 70 to be elected president. My guess is that if Palin wants to become president, she'll have to spend more than the decade she has in politics. Maybe after she wrests the Senate seat away from Murkowski.
Now yer talking. Actually, the other democrat schmuck senator will be up for re-election first. In 2014.
Tanking? She won the January Straw Poll, in spite of all the crap thrown at her, and now she is leading in the February Straw Poll. Tanking. In your dreams!