Some interesting comments from Huckabee on Palin, via the Wall Street Journal:

“What John McCain did for her was to give her the capacity to sort of leapfrog over the process and get right to the center stage,” he said at a breakfast with reporters this morning. “By naming her (his running mate) he was able to put her in a position where she did have to go through the bruising process of the primaries. Many of us had been out there for 15 months … she walks into the hot spotlight and she's a blank slate nobody knows so Republicans are fired up.” ...

Huckabee's comments on Palin, a possible rival for the 2012 Republican nomination, suggest some jealously. “She didn't have to go through any the debates, she didn't have to go through the primaries, she didn't have to have people pick her or pick someone else against her. State parties did not have to divide from one to 12 ways over her. So it was a remarkable ability for her to come in at a level that is an extraordinary benefit to her.”

He continued: “So will she be part of the future? Of course she will, for the simple reason that she is one of the few people who played at that stage who didn't have to get bloodied in the process.”

Huckabee, you'll recall, is making some waves with his new book, particulary with his comments on Mitt Romney.