When does the row-back from McCain begin?

As we know, one of the subsidiary psychological factors motivating Decency is the desire to be on the winning side, just once. And so it was that several prominent Men of Decency decided to get their Presidential endorsements in early, taking the part of John McCain, as we documented at the time in a couple of posts. The main reasons for their doing so appeared to be:

1) an anecdote about him nearly punching Malcolm Rifkind, written about but not exactly sourced in a book by Brendan Sims, slightly embellished in the retelling by Nick Cohen, repeated by Oliver Kamm and then embellished once more by Nick Cohen (as noted here at the time. And

2) it looked like he might win.

The Harry's Place[1] comment section, natch, have been mad for McCain, as have many of the front page posters, only held back slightly by Gene. All over the blogosphere, we have certainly had to sit through numerous lectures about how lefties simply don't understand ordinary working people like Sarah Palin (ordinary working-class people who own fucking aeroplanes, that kind of ordinary folks. The Decents are never more disgraceful than when they're playing culture war; it was a major reason for dropping coverage of Nick Cohen).

Now McCain is, shall we say, fucked, when does the row-back start? When does the Votenfreude begin?

[1] I know that some of our readers don't like to see Harry's Place discussed as if they mattered or were worth reading. In general, I have some sympathy with this view, but on balance, I agree with the authors of "Sadly, No! in their manifesto, Principia Wingnuttia. Their point that "C-List wingnuts say what A-List wingnuts think" is entirely applicable to Decency; Kamm, Hoare, McShane etc and even Cohen are always careful to avoid stating the more ludicrously appalling and/or unpopular planks of their political philosophy in so many words, but the Harry's Place comments section can always be relied upon to say it for them. I actually agree with ENGAGE that the traffic on most Israel-protest mailing lists certainly ought to be a matter for concern to any sensible Palestinian rights activist, and that the movement in general ought to do its best to discourage nuts and obsessives. But by the same token, the way in which the Decent Left are seemingly content with a situation where they're always two clicks away from nuts and racists really ought to be taken as indicative of the kind of psychological pool they're happy to be fishing in. (Take this as a sort of trailer for the forthcoming "Decent Racism" post).