Well, my field any way I look at it is Palin, Demint, Perry, West, Cain...and any combination of Palin with the others. And I look at electability, conservatism, SUCCESS, and promotion of American exceptionalism and traditions/values.
Again, Pawlenty does not even get a look in...he’s a cap ‘n trader...no matter his mea culpa...and he doesn’t show much success while governing Minnesota. He’s more or less a sit in...
As far as electability, Palin sits as the top, as she already had Obamajad beat within 3 weeks in 2008 and was outpolling him by 3% and had doubled McCain’s money. Until of course dumb arse McCain dropped the ball and ran back to support the TARP bill full frontal...
I see electability as her biggest challenge. How to reverse those extremely high negatives? She has 100% name recognition, but also the highest negatives. And it's not just one poll, it's lots of polls. Occam's Razor would tell us there's something to that. This means a lot of voters have already made up their mind about her. In other words, she may have a limited upside. Can she break through that? We'll see. First, she would have to get into the race.