Palin to give big Iowa speech as polls show most Republicans do not want her to run

Sarah Palin knows how to manipulate the press. She has scheduled what her aides are calling "a major policy address" for tomorrow in Iowa. And it is sure to draw a lot of attention from the political chattering class, many of whom are expected to be chastised in her remarks.

The former Alaska governor also plans to make it clear that she is not a fan of the new front-runner for the Republican nomination, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, according to Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics.

But she is not going to jump in the race Saturday, just throw some red meat to her supporters and attack President Obama and his record, according to the National Review.

The problem for the Fox News analyst is that those supporters are dwindling fast, and many Republicans are questioning whether her trips to political hotspots are helping or hurting her, the Wall Street Journal reports.

A Fox News poll shows that 71 percent of Republicans think that Palin should stay out of the race for the White House. And for every self-described Tea Party voter who wants her to run, two think she should stay on the sidelines.

But she wants to sell books. And command speaking fees. And the longer she can flirt with the idea of running, the more money she can make from book sales and speeches. Just ask Donald Trump, who toyed with running earlier this year and watched his bank account grow with the publicity.

Conroy reports that her approximately half hour speech will be a call to change the ways of Washington.

"Part of what she will address is . . . that tea party-elected people want to get things done, and then they encounter an intractable political mentality in D.C.," the aide told Real Clear Politics. "They're impervious to real reform, and that can't continue any longer."

Conroy wrote that Palin plans to tout her record as governor and the changes she brought to Juneau.

"She'll also address her own record in the sense that she has fought the powers that be her entire career in taking on the political machine and a corrupt political class in her own state," the aide told Conroy.