An e-mail, one of a few:

I’m not sure what you’re getting at here. It was the Republican Party, not McCain that decided to back Chaffee over Laffey and it was the RNC that made the choice to pour millions into Chaffee’s reelection campaign. From a strategic standpoint, you’d rather see Whitehouse take the seat? Like him or not (and I don’t), Chaffee will play a large role in who keeps control of the Senate. I’m not going to fault McCain for working to help the party, and you shouldn’t either. You’ll have to excuse me if, in light of your previous work, I read this post as an unfair, indirect attempt to promote Romney.

If I had never heard of Mitt Romney I would still not want Chafee to make the difference on Election Day. You can argue party numbers (and you might be right), but I’d much prefer to hear McCain and everyone else saying do whatever you can do to get Rick Santorum reelected. Santorum I’ll miss if he doesn’t pull it out, Chafee I won’t.

Yeah, I like Romney, not exactly breaking news. But didn’t like Chafee long before.