“Mike Huckabee has a warning for Sarah Palin: Don’t abandon the Republican Party,” said Alexander Mooney in CNN. Huckabee said on Fox News that he is worried by recent speculation that Palin is considering leaving the GOP to become an independent, sparked by her comments that she will raise money for conservative candidates regardless of party affiliation. He urged Palin not to “go third party or go independent,” but to “help rebuild” the GOP.
Huckabee could be genuinely worried, said Allahpundit in Hot Air, or he could be trying to “plant a seed of doubt” about a potential 2012 rival’s commitment to the GOP. If Palin ran for president as a third-party candidate, it would be bad for Republicans. But a Palin bid for the Republican nomination “would absolutely ruin Huckabee’s” chances—he’d “bleed evangelical support.”
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