No need to say sorry to me: I don’t have the kind of rooting interest in McCain that precludes me from acknowledging evidence that he won’t win or that he has done something dumb. The Club for Growth comments were dumb. Lincoln Chafee didn’t lose his seat because the club opposed him in the primary, and it isn’t obvious to me that the loss of nominal Senate control arising from the loss of his seat was such a terrible blow to conservatism anyway.