"Mitt Romney will never be President -- I won't be surprised if Mitt Romney wins the Iowa Caucus. I will be surprised, however, if he's still in the race when the South Carolina primary comes around. Even if the impending scandal that has been rumored for weeks doesn’t derail his campaign (I can't say what it is but you should hear about it before Jan. 8)..." -- Blogger & Former Huckabee staffer Joe Carter

PS #1: I have no idea how much credence to put into this, but I thought I'd share it.

PS #2: It would be unethical, but highly effective for the Huckabee campaign to release something like this via a blogger who was leaving their campaign. However, from what I have seen of them, they're way too unorganized to plan and execute something like that.

PS #3: Carter's whole article about working for the Huckabee campaign for 30 days presents an interesting perspective.

Update #1: I've got sources in every Republican campaign except Ron Paul's and I've started reaching out to some of them on this story. Here's what one of them, who would like to remain anonymous, told me,

I think I know what the story is, but I don't have any information I can leak. And, really, I don't know if the story has legs or not. That said, it's not a story that's coming from us. I wish I could tell you more, but that's really all I can say.

Update #2: Another source of mine, which is not with the Huckabee campaign or the same campaign as my previous source, told me that they are hearing that the story is going to be that Romney was behind the "anti-Mormon" push polling that got so much attention in Iowa.

Intriguingly, these allegations were made previously and the Romney campaign strongly denied that they had anything to do with the polling.

If that turned out not to be the case, it would be a damaging story indeed -- but, it remains to be seen whether this is the specific allegation Carter was referring to and whether the Romney campaign had anything to do with it.

I will be continuing to look into the story this afternoon.

Update #3: I went back to my first source and asked if this was the story he was thinking about. He told me that it was.