True, but supporting Huckabee is a vote for McCain. If you don't like McCain, vote for Romney since Huckabee is too far back to win.
I think we need to look at this on a state-by-state basis. Here in Missouri, I will be voting for Huckabee. Romney's a distant third to the neck and neck Huck and McCain. Missouri is winner take all so we need Huck to win this one.
in reading all this I see this as the best road to a brokered convention:
This assumes we actually want a brokered convention rather than an outright defeat of McCain. (The best scenario is actually having Romney pound McCain into defeat outright.)
arguendo:
A brokered convention is best served IF ronpaul and Huckabee COMBINED have an irrelevant number of delegates. In other words, where Huckabees votes can not put anyone over the top even if combined with the ron paul delegate.
It is also better if the Romney delegate count actually exceeds the McCain delegate count so McCain is not the presumptive plurality choice.
This neutralizes the Ahrnold evirowackos and the Giuliani pro abortion and giuliani pro homosexual fringes.
This leaves the brokering to happen between Romeny the businessman/negotiator and McCain the gang of 14/backstabber.
However to achieve that result where McCain is shut out of the outright win AND high ground in a brokered convention, it requires Huckabee recieve as few delegates as possible.