Mike Huckabee,  Sarah Palin

Mike Huckabee Will Travel to Iowa and South Carolina on Book Tour Beginning Late February

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee

I guess Mike Huckabee is keeping his irons in the fire, should Sarah Palin decide not to run for President in 2012. But, the evidence against a Presidential run for Huckabee is apparent.

Mike Huckabee will visit six cities in Iowa and five in South Carolina during his upcoming book tour – one more sign that the former Arkansas governor wants to keep his name in the presidential mix for 2012 even as he enjoys the comforts of a lucrative talk show career.

The tour to promote his new book, “A Simple Government,” kicks off in Davenport, Iowa on February 27 and will take him to five more cities in the first-in-the-nation caucus state over two days: Dubuque, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Des Moines.

Huckabee will then travel through other states in the Midwest and south before heading to South Carolina for a two-day, five-city swing beginning on March 7. He’ll sign books in Florence, Columbia, Anderson, Greenville and Spartanburg.

That means Huckabee will be spending more than a quarter of his 40-city tour in two states that play a major role in determining who the GOP presidential nominee will be in 2012.

As I have said, the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination is Sarah Palin’s for the taking. But, should she not run, Mike Huckabee would be available as an alternative to Mitt Romney.

Plus, Huckabee gets to make some coin by selling books, while the pundits speculate on whether he will run for President.