Given the premise that Romney and McCain will receive an equal number of votes, one will emerge as the clear majority winner and will receive the nomination on the first ballot and that will be the end of it.
But there is still a chance of changing that outcome if instead of voting for one or the other, everyone who is voting for McCain as an alternate pick because there are no conservatives left to vote for should vote for Huckabee instead. That would practically insure that McCain would not receive a majority.
If you were going to vote for Romney as an alternative because there were no conservative candidates to vote for, a vote for Huckabee would decrease the Romney numbers and reduce the chance that he would have a majority.
Huckabee's numbers would be increased sufficiently for there to be a three-way race, with no clear majority.
That being the case, electors will be free to change there votes for whoever they wanted. On the assumption that most of the electors really wanted a conservative to begin with, such as Thompson or Hunter, they are free to cast their votes for one or the other on the second ballot.
In all the FR polls, Fred was the run-away favorite to win against any other candidates, Republican or Democrat. If that was an indication of a national interest, I would assume that Fred would out-vote Hillary or Obama as well.
How important is it for us to have a conservative president for the next four years? Seems there is much to undo from all the damage that has been done during the last 16 years at least. And it seems most bizarre that we are on the verge of placing the one individual who has done the most damage to our political system into the Oval Office.
Are we really that politcally exhausted that we are going to settle for what the MSM and enemies within have chosen for us to vote for? Lord have mercy on us. Think of all the plans they have that will be placed on the front burner. I won't even begin to list them.
Wake up, a brokered convention gets us McCain.