What's going on here is the Democrats are defending wife-beating, just as we knew they would.
Democrats are all terribly ethically and morally challenged.
Well, it is all out war, and they will use any weapon they have to win. They accuse conservatives of making war on this, not admitting that it is they who started the war. Every setback for them is an offense. Palin’s nomination was a shock, so they treat it as a breach of peace, and are excused to make any claim they can think of to discredit her.