More accurate to say Palin was Newted 15 yrs later.
In her book she even mentions that what they did to her was the same thing they did to Newt and specifically mentions the whole ethics thing
The media have perfected the technique, and it is in fact formidable.
The beauty (if I may use that word) is that the after affects are long lingering, because it is front loaded, and people's memories are short, and we like our info in small easily digestable pieces.
Witness comments on this very site regards the both of them and their "ethical violations."
Or you could say both Newt and Palin got Borked. The conservative media as we know it today, I suspect, only exists because the Democrats invented Borking and used it against its namesake, Clarence Thomas, Newt Gingrich, Ken Starr, Linda Tripp, etc.