I don’t see why this is unfair. In caucuses you get a second choice if your first doesn’t get enough initial support.The McCain people went to Huckabee, fair and square.
The fact is that Romney is a stuffed shirt, an empty vessel and more fake than a 3 dollar bill. Voters don’t like him, no matter how much the conservatives in the media (hannity, Rush etc etc) pump him up.
Now, my goals are much more modest. I hope the Republicans can nominate a President, or very much less and worse, a Vice President, who understands that the core of a conservative is to read, understand and obey the Constitution of the United States, and along with that, nominate Justices and judges who have the same skills.
That ain't Huckabee. That ain't McCain. And that sure ain't Clinton or Obama. Romney's not my first choice, nor maybe even my second. But he is all that's left. Don't even bother to mention Ron (Stormtrooper) Paul.
And I don't give a rat's patoot what Rush or anyone else has to say on the matter. Like most folks on FR, I make up my own mind, after doing my own homework. BTW, my homework included writing part of a brief in the Supreme Court, against McCain-Feingold. And, I resigned from the Bar of the Supreme Court in disgust, after the Court approved that monstrosity (5-4).
Congressman Billybob
If they did this of their own free will, that's fine. If they were pressured or offered "benefits" for flipping, that's something else again.
Voters don’t like him because they are too stupid to see what a conservative is.