I’m not saying that Rod is wrong, I don’t follow these things closely enough to know; but does he have any specific evidence for this?:

What I’m trying to get across here is that events of the past few days have revealed that the left — not everyone on the left, but some on the left — is bound and determined to destroy Sarah Palin for the crime of being a pro-life woman. I’ve found the level of spite to be so jarring that it’s moving me from being anti-McCain, to cautiously optimistic about McCain-Palin, to approaching a point where I feel almost obligated to vote for McCain-Palin to spite those trying to destroy her.

I don’t  defend moronic conspiracy theories about the birth of her son, but I’d like to see evidence that Palin is being subjected to anything outside the normal range of American attack politics. Has everybody forgotten the Vince Foster murder, or the Muslim Barack Obama? I remember Limbaugh and McCain being cruel to Chelsea Clinton when her father was president. I didn’t resort to voting for Slick Willie because of it.

Dreher is free to vote for McCain to spite the Kos Kretins; but he will also be voting for war with Iran and pointless brinksmanship with Russia, funded by another mountain range of debt. A McCain vote also gives a ringing endorsement to the last eight years of unnecessary war, torture and incompetence. In other words, it is a vote to cut off his nose in order to spite his face.

Daniel, on the other hand, hasn’t lost his head over Palin:

With all respect to Gov. Palin, who delivered an effective stemwinder that had a number of amusing lines in it, the conditioned responses that conservatives are having to Palin’s speech is frankly depressing.  For all of their complaints and criticisms about McCain’s deviations, conservatives are now falling into line even more pathetically than usual.  Seeing this display, I am tempted to think that even Giuliani could have won the nomination, chosen a similar running mate and nothing would have changed.