Chris Matthews must have been starstruck when had John McCain on “Hardball” tonight. Twice McCain claimed that the current “strategy” in Iraq was “working,” and both times Matthews failed to challenge McCain on that dubious assertion. With other war supporters Matthews loves to make the case that the war is a mess and that choosing to go in was a terrible and tragic mistake. Yet he gets one of the biggest war cheerleaders on his program and he let’s him off the hook. Pretty lame.