Your attempt at reductio absurdum is admirable.
However, you can do a search and catch the email that a high level McCain staffer sent to Cristol busting out the Wallaces, both Mark and Nicolle.
Not only did they leak the smears to the media, Nicolle then lied and leaked that the high level advisor was fired, which he wasnt. LOL.
Your affections for Romney aside, these are the facts.
We know that Nicolle has been attacking Palin. What we don’t know, because it apparently is not true, is that Nicolle has any direct connection to Romney or his campaign.
Nor do we have any evidence that Mark, while on the Romney campaign, leaked anything about Palin (of course, I realise that by and large, Romney’s campaign was essentially over, and his staff disbursed, by the time Palin was chosen).
It wouldn’t surprise me if people who had worked on other campaigns could also decide to oppose Palin — I reject the notion that a candidate is responsible for everything any person who ever worked for their campaign ever does.
Here is the sad truth. Sarah Palin is a smart person, and a good person, who nonetheless knows exactly how to name names. She has not named Romney, so far as I can tell, I would presume by now there would be a dozen posts here if Romney was mentioned negatively in her book.
So it is unfortunate that Sarah’s supporters can’t follow her lead. McCain of course has asked his people not to attack Sarah, and his followers have NOT paid any attention to him, but I thought Sarah had a higher class of people supporting her.