Please be serious. If instead, you take the Left seriously, Sarah Palin is infinitely powerful, as President Bush was, and therefore is responsible for everything bad that happens—including events before she was born.
There is no possible set of circumstances under which Sarah would not be blamed by the cyber-Stalinists and the alphabet media for the shooting death of any Democratic political figure. Get used to the fact that they say things because they are untrue. Otherwise, they are not satisfied that they are being sufficiently urgent and hysterical. In fact, lying makes them feel almighty, reigning supreme over reality itself. They do not need an unanswered query about "surveyors" in order to get there. For them, any route will do.
You are right. How this all plays out is really up to Sarah. Every single time she is bashed, she is out right then and there to put the BS sign up. This time she is not and that is weird.