Huckabee and Thompson have been sharing the conservative and evangelical Republican base primary voters. As long as both are viable candidates and continue running nether has a chance of defeating Romney or McCain.
I feel that Huckabee has significantly less appeal than Thompson to most voters in the Presidential Election. (The MSM apparently believes that Huckabee would loose to either Hillary or Obama in the General Election so they are giving him some positive support.)
Thompson has the potential to appeal to moderates and Reagan Democrats in the General Election but his performance so far has been lackluster. Because Huckabee’s base is mostly evangelical voters, he will probably burn out quickly as the primaries occur in states that have small evangelical populations.
I, like most of you, can’t stomach McCain. Guliani appears to be out of the running. That leaves us with Romney. I know he is not most Freepers first or even second choice but he has a reasonable chance to win in November.
I would still hope and pray for Thompson but unless something drastic happens he does not appear to have a chance at the nomination. In sum, I think we must prepare and work for a Romney nomination if we want to win the White House in November.
In your scenario, I might vote for Romney but it would take a couple six packs and a lot of coaxing.
I wouldn’t vote for McCain or Huckabee over my own dead body.
As it is I plan on voting for Thompson.