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Most of the polls at this stage match her against Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. Many of them, including the Democrat poll, PPP, include Romney and Huckabee and fairly consistently place Romney in the lead in a three way race.

This tells you more about the polls and pollsters than it does about reality.

Here is a dose of reality. Romney will never be president, and neither will Huckabee. If either one ever was, they'd enact half of Obama's agenda and call it conservatism, but we're safe, because neither one will ever be president.

Now lets take it one step further while we're at it. If the GOP were to nominate another McCain in the person of Huck or Romney, it would fracture the GOP perhaps for good. The Left wants this, of course, and Romney is so convinced that its his turn that he won't see it coming and won't care anyway.

“Here is a dose of reality. Romney will never be president, and neither will Huckabee. If either one ever was, they’d enact half of Obama’s agenda and call it conservatism, but we’re safe, because neither one will ever be president.

Now lets take it one step further while we’re at it. If the GOP were to nominate another McCain in the person of Huck or Romney, it would fracture the GOP perhaps for good.”

Agreed. If Huck or Romney were nominated, it would be a win/win for the left. They would probably lose, as you say, but if they did not, they would be people the left could “work with.” After they enacted the half of Obama’s agenda, they would be swept out in favor of another Obama, who would finish the country off.

This tells you more about the polls and pollsters than it does about reality.

I think the PPP and Rasmussen polls are right actually. Romeny and Huckabee are running ahead of Sarah Palin right now, thought not by much. All 3 of them are polling pretty close to 0bama(apart from the PPP poll this week which had Huckabee and Romney beating 0bama, with Sarah Palin just 2 points behind 0bama). The polls are too consistent for them to be wrong, so bottom line: Romney/Huckabee are ahead of Sarah Palin in the polls right now.
But then this is 2010, and the primaries and the elections are in 2012. Sarah Palin will have to do some work to convince the independents(and some Republicans) that she really is very good presidential material. In her last two speeches(SRLC and Boston), I noticed she is putting a lot of strong policy stuff in her speech. That's a step in the right direction. She should just continue giving more policy speeches, write more policy OP-Eds in the Wall Street Journal, WaPo, USA Today etc, and soon, come out with a book on what her policy positions are, with plenty of meaty stuff in it.
Also, much as I hate them, she is going to have to start appearing on some of these MSM TV outlets to do interviews, starting with the least loony left ones(all of them are bad, but some are not as evil as the others). she could start off with an interview that is focused on energy issues(on which she is an expert) for example.