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RUSH:  Let me ask you a question.  Jonathan Martin, Politico, does this story that the conservative intellectuals don’t like this identity politics that Palin’s playing.  Victimology and all that.  May I ask you, what is her identity?  No, no, somebody tell me.  Snerdley, if somebody asks you to tell ‘em who Sarah Palin is, what’s her identity?  In fact, if she were playing upon identity politics, if people really meant what they said, wouldn’t the NAGs love this woman?  She’s got it all.  The only thing she did not do was have an abortion, and that’s maybe a big problem.  But she’s got it all.  I mean she is the epitome of having it all, in a way.  We were talking yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, about how the media and even some conservatives mocked Ronald Reagan.  They didn’t like Ronald Reagan.  In fact, one of the nicest things that Reagan was called was an amiable dunce, and that was by Tip O’Neill.  Well, ask yourself.  Is there anybody on the political scene today who has proved to be an amiable dunce?  Is there?  I give you Obama, if there is a genuine amiable dunce. I mean here’s a guy playing golf every day, recording his NCAA picks for ESPN broadcast tomorrow, if there is somebody walking and wandering through the motions here, and I would question even the amiability on this.  But let’s not leave him out of it.  Now, I get Internet spam out the wazoo.  Sometimes I have to really guard my temper ’cause my friends send me this stuff.  “Hey, Rush, wait ’til you see this,” and I’ve only seen a thousand copies of it by the time they send it to me.  So not only does it clutter my e-mail box from spammers, my friends this stuff to me.  One of these things they sent was from February 27 called: “‘Open letter to Sarah Palin’ — Sarah, you chose to keep and raise your Down syndrome child and that is CHOICE that the left and probably a lot of women HATE to be reminded of what choice they might have to face in their own lives. They don’t want to be exposed to the site of a competent, happy mother dealing with all of the complexities of those circumstances. It demonstrates an internal strength and SOLID MORAL COMPASS that many of them cannot bear to witness. They suspect that in their own hearts they don’t have that level of moral strength within them. We know that Clinton’s moral compass was prone to pointing towards the best female target in the room at the time.” Now, this next paragraph I really think is right.  “We [as a culture] seem to be more in tune and sympathetic to weakness and moral failure. We want to help weaklings all we can, after all it’s ‘not their fault’, and it’s easier to watch someone as bad or weaker than ourselves. We see it in all the Hollywood coverage of the failed icons of stage,  screen and TV  who have all the advantages life offers repeatedly failing .They use the proceeds of their profession to abuse themselves and control their entourage. How many of the odd ball papers in the super marker checkout line exist purely on this appetite for details about failed lives? The very fact that you Sarah are successfully dealing with you’re child Trig while stiff arming all of your political enemies, that appear to be legion, shows that you are very much feared by the progressives, and have the right stuff for true conservatives. You are more than qualified to fend off attacks by the progressives. If you decide to run and are successful in a presidential campaign it will be because you are a strait shooter, unlike what we have now.” So the point is that this business here about her being a threat to people, in the conservative intellectual sense I think she’s a threat because she got where she is without seeking their counsel, she has not sought their advice, she doesn’t pal around with them.  She has direct access to the Tea Party, by virtue of her ideas.  They don’t.  And I think trying to take her out is an attempt to take out the Tea Party as well.  To try to impugn her is to impugn the Tea Party as well.  But this business here of we want to help weaklings, we’re sympathetic to weakness and moral failure.  And this is true not just in the entertainment media.  This is true throughout the media.  I could give you a couple one-name examples but I’m not gonna revisit this at this time.  But this is, believe me, right on the money.  People who have failed, people that just don’t quite measure up, it’s cause of our country, it’s because of our culture, it’s because of some form of discrimination, some form of racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, what have you.  So we identify with these victims.  That’s what I don’t get.  She doesn’t play this card.  She doesn’t play that kind of victimology card.  She doesn’t portray herself as weak like the others who do and get away with it.