But will she even attend them, or will she concede that stage to Bachmann, the candidate who's run hurts Palin the most? She's passed on the chance to 'buy' a lot there, which I think means she's passed on a chance to give an official speech as part of the program there. And the deadline to sign up for participation at all is fast approaching. Since she didn't announce today, the next theory of when she might come in is when the deadline expires for filing more junk suits against her as Governor of Alaska. That, IIRC, falls in late July, later, again IIRC, than the deadline for attending the Iowa Straw poll. And that timing makes her seem weak. Coming in later, as did Fred Thompson, carries other problems as Fred's many then fans here will recall. Fred never did find the fire in his belly, or at least never got over being accused of that. True or not, Palin would be accused of the same and would waste time overcoming that.
Leaving South Carolina (first primary in the conservative South--Florida being neither conservative nor "Southern") to decide the nominee—and SC is Sarah Palin’s if she wants it. Both Jim DeMint and Nikki Haley would be in her corner.