Rile the base

Palin's email today:

Friends, in the course of a few weeks, the Obama-Biden Democrats have launched attack after attack on me, my family and John McCain. They're desperate to win and they'll no doubt launch these attacks against other reformers on our ticket.

When asked about this, a campaign aide responded with 3 points:

1) Obama finance committee member Howard Gutman questioning Palin's parenting and her willingness to take on the Veep candidate role when her family is so consuming -- a comment he subsequently apologized for.

2) Andrew Sullivan's demand that the McCain campaign release medical records putting to rest rumors about the birth of Trig Palin.

3) A user diary on DailyKos, which is of course the site of leading Obama supporter Markos Moulitsas, raising questions about that pregnancy.

Markos is dismissive:

You could use a Daily Kos diary to justify just about any charge ever made. Same with the Free Republic message boards, etc. But that's patently absurd, and just more of her `rile the base' bullshit. If something stupid can be said, you can believe someone on Daily Kos has said it.

So let me see if I understand this correctly:

3) "Obama-Biden Democrats" are responsible for random users' diaries at the website Daily Kos, which anyone can post to.

2) Andrew Sullivan was an "Obama-Biden Democrat" who's repeated insistence that she (and all other candidates) should release their medical records constitutes an attack on her family, particularly his request for Trig's birth records to set that rumorfest to rest.

1) Questioning her time commitments as a parent and then apologizing for it is a "desperate to win" attack, and one of "attack after attack".

Did I get that right? Gee, I wonder who's desperate.