Your candidate fired the first shot, so the indignant protests of his supporters ring quite hollow indeed.
You've gone the strange route of those rabid "PALIN!!!!!....I mean CAIN!!!!!....I mean NEWT!!!!...I mean...back to Palin....or Santorum...ummmmm" supporters. I actually am OK with any of those, but that little group of supporters who use all caps and multiple exclamation points when referring to the object of their obsession are just nuts.