Sarah Palin is no Walter Mondale. She is our Barack Obama.
By that I mean, the troops, the base, the grassroots, whatever you call them, identify with her on a deep symbolic and emotional level. They will never turn from her (if she is a candidate), and they will turn on and attack any "normal" candidate.
This intensity is very unusual in Presidential politics, and it may very well be enough to get her elected (I presume, if she wants the nomination, she will get it).
There are two questions about Our Lady of Wasilla that I don't know the answers to: First, can she overcome the enormous and unprecedented media/Hollywood/university attack machine, and, second, if she is elected, what then?
The Leftist core behind Obama was very confident they'd be getting the wrecking ball that Obama has become.
I do get a tingle up my leg every time Sarah speaks, but I don't yet have the security that her Administration will have as many radical patriots as Obama's has communist traitors.
We shall see.
Both are inexperienced to an absurd degree.