Personally, if it's among Huck, Romney, and McCain, I'm not sure that I don't like McCain better anyway. As long as we have to have a liberal at the top of the ticket, we may as well have the most honest one. I can trust McCain a lot more than socialist Huck, or the guy who once bragged that he was to the left of Ted Kennedy.
Fred is out of the race, only if he wants out. No one has a lock on the race yet, so if Fred wants it, he could still have it.
McCain has betrayed conservatives. I would never vote for him. Your assessment of Romney is harsh. I trust him.