Sometimes I think that is the real nail in the coffin for me, in regards to Romney. It’s bad enough, his liberalism, his flip-flops, his lack of core values. But, ultimately, the real clincher that will forever prevent me from EVER giving Romney my vote under any circumstances, was due to his sleazy operatives who joined the McCain campaign and proceded to backstab Palin, speading smears and lies to their buddies in the media, before the election was even over. True cretins.
People say that and believe it, but is it true? And where's the evidence?
Who were those people? McCain had his core staff. Romney had his. Anybody who jumped from Romney to McCain after the nomination would be subordinate to long-time McCainites.
So far as I can find out one of Romney's top people went over to McCain's campaign after the nomination. There were probably others in lower positions, but whatever was coming out of McCain's campaign about Palin had to be the work mostly of McCain loyalists.
Somebody in the McCain campaign who got close enough to Palin to have any first-hand contact and knowledge would almost certainly have been a long-time McCainite. So was some random Romneyite in the McCain campaign badmouthing Palin? It's possible, but does that justify all the indignation and righteousness people have about this story?
There's more evidence that McCain loyalists were badmouthing both Palin and Romney for whatever reasons of their own. I have to wonder whether this attack on rumormongering about Palin is simply rumormongering about Romney.