Simply put, she has a base, and they're not going to be swayed, so her favorable numbers aren't likely to ever dip much further than they already have.
Well that's to be expected, after all the state she quit on has a total population smaller than some cities. So all her fans in the lower 48 are still cheering. She hasn't let them down yet (unless you count little things like the election last November.)
Republicans lacking their usual self reflection have bought her line that her quitting was about a stand of some sort. But what sort of stand. I'm one of the few who take Palin at her word that she couldn't stay in office without violating her core principles (at least I think that's what she was trying to say.) But it seems to me that her quitting is saying out loud that Republican Core Principles are incompatible with practical government. That in order to be true to your Core Republican Principles means there's no way to effectively govern a state, even one with a population less than a million and is awash in oil revenues. Look at what happens to Republicans who actually make sensible governing choices like (I can't believe I'm writing this) Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here's a guy Republicans once wanted to rewrite the Constitution for so he could run for the White House. How many GOP signatures would that bill get now?
The Republicans have become the party of Talk Radio and Fox News Shows, a bunch of talking heads and windbags who can yell over the airwaves but who's Core Principles prevent them from managing the town of Pawnee.
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