Could Palin turn Huckabee into frontrunner?

[Bull Moose Base]

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.

[Bull Moose Base]

The political term teabagging was self-descriptive and coined by the teabaggers themselves.  That they complain about it now is no more coherent than an anti-tax protest against a stimulus plan that basically gave them all tax cuts.  My point is their movement quickly became the go-to spot for anyone who wanted to protest Obama for anything, such as people who believed he was a Muslim (a plurality of the Republican Party in the last poll to measure it) infringing on a Christian country.  These people largely approve of Huckabee just fine despite his sometimes non-conservative record on spending, and, if Palin should skip the race, he'll have little trouble winning over many or most of her supporters, Rush Limbaugh and Grover Norquist notwithstanding.  I don't see any incentive on his part to make a decision before August.  And even though it's their own term, who are the teabaggers of all groups to complain about name-calling really?  They should start by cleaning up their own posters.