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IT's a warm evening, even for South Carolina, even for late June. It's especially warm--sweat-dripping hot, actually--inside the Lace House, a lovely antebellum home on the grounds of the governor's mansion in downtown Columbia. But heat or no heat, a crowd of South Carolina Republican politicos, candidates, and activists has come to the Lace House to raise money for the party's 2006 candidates--and to get a firsthand look at the event's guest of honor, Sen. John McCain. Of course they're all quite familiar with McCain, whose 2000 presidential campaign died here after an ugly primary fight with George W. Bush. But they've come to see the McCain who is planning to run ...