You are missing the point. If a Rino like Chafee had been reelected, the GOP would be running the Senate, not Harry Reid.
Who would you rather have running the Senate, Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell?
Score another one of Medved.
What point? Chafee was soundly defeated with the full support of the GOP, including a grossly disproportionate tranche of resources provided by Liddy Dole, to the fatal exclusion of the Senate races in Virginia and Missouri.