Could Palin turn Huckabee into frontrunner?

[Whacker77]

If Huckabee's running, he's going about it in a weird way.  He's raising very little money and most insiders say he doesn't want to give up his lucrative Fox contract.  In fact, they may be close to announcing a new deal.

I think Huck's been sending signals he doesn't want to run for a while.  A month or so ago he said he wouldn't run if Jeb Bush decided to run.  I think he was trying to coax Jeb off the sideline, but it didn't work.  Right now, I think he's trying to figure out the best way to stop Palin.  He knows if he announces now he's not running, she becomes a huge favorite.

The real player in the whole thing is Palin.  I've been saying for a while she's the favorite, regardless of any poll.  Now, I'm not so sure she's running.  Maybe even she's beginning to realize she has no shot of winning a general election.  She has no staff and Iowa's governor says she's sending mixed messages.

[Whacker77]

If Palin runs and is competitive it's fine for her career.  We don't know that Huckabee would run if Palin skipped the race.  I doubt she'd be motivated one iota by trying to stop Romney.  Huckabee has taken some swipes at Palin and she seems like she holds grudges.  And while Nate Silver is usually shrewd, there's a false dichotomy between Evangelical Christians and the Tea Party.  Much of the teabaggers seem to have little agenda besides the culture war.

Do you feel better about yourself by calling people associated with the Tea Party "teabaggers".  Were's the civility your party leader has requested from all of us?