Huckabee to Endorse, Campaign for Rand Paul

From today's edition of POLITICO's Morning Score — Huckabee to endorse and campaign for Rand Paul and Todd Lally in Kentucky later this month.

This is surprising (at least, in the case of Paul), because Huckabee has always had well-reasoned reservations about libertarian ideology. It is unsurprising, because Huckabee knows he will need Tea Party support in 2012 — and because, since January, his former campaign manager, Chip Saltsman, has been consulting the Paul campaign.

2012 SNEAK PEEK - HUCKA-TEA - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will travel to Kentucky this month to campaign for two of the 2010 cycle's original tea party insurgents: Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul and House candidate Todd Lally. He'll formally endorse both of them and hold separate events to boost their campaigns, likely on Sept. 25. It's almost a distant memory in a post-9/14 world, but it was in Kentucky back on May 18 that the tea party revolt first exploded this year.

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As Alexander Burns, the man behind Morning Score, points out — this is all about 2012.