“Palins history making feat is that she is doing it without money, and without staff and handlers, and it is brilliant.”
Doing WHAT exactly? Has she announced? No. Will she? Maybe. At some point you gotta do yer business or get off the pot.
Planning the day of announcement is key, it was only days ago that Perry felt the timing was right to make his announcement, yet there Palin is bus touring, appearing in Iowa, planning a massive tea party speech in Iowa in 2 weeks.