Jim,
I’ve been thinking all day about your post. There’s a good reason to not vote for Huckabee. That reason is that he simply won’t win the nomination. It’s a quixotic campaign at this point. Voting for him will allow McCain to maintain the momentum he has. Momentum is the important thing here.
I want a brokered convention as much as you do. I want to see RINO lip prints on conservative booty! That’s not going to happen if McCain can maintain his momentum. We have to knock him off course. A few Romney victories on Tuesday will do that. Splitting the conservative vote between Romney and Huckabee will leave McCain as the last man standing.
My advice is that we all be Romney guys come Tuesday. If he does really well, then we become Huckabee guys for the next round of primaries and kill Romney’s momentum! Who knows? Maybe we’ll have to be McCain guys for a week before it’s all through. But right now, the best bet for reversing the campaign’s inertia is to go with Romney and against McCain.
There will be no brokered convention. Allowing McCain to continue his "surge" by voting for Huckabee will obviate any such convention. The vote simply has to be for Romney to stop McQueeg cold in his tracks.
Dreams, fantasies, straw-grasping and false hopes of a brokered convention are embedded in the minds of folks who look for any excuse and self-delusion to explain away their intent to vote for Huckabee......which is really a vote for McManiac.
Leni