Bingo!
Bottom line: Ever see the pic on the web where it’s a dark room, the guy is sitting bloodshot-eyed at the computer had his wife is trying to get him to bed. The caption reads “I CAN’T LEAVE NOW!!! SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!!!
That’s the thing. People agree with Palin by and large but can’t let go the fact that they were PUBLICLY wrong about her. And their pride threatens to undermine the candidate they agree with because they will not eat crow. They will sabotage themselves rather than type on FR and elsewhere “I was wrong.”
Too often, it seems that some develop a personal and emotional dislike of a candidate, and then look to find something, however irrational, to use as a justification to support that conception.