They (mostly) all booed when Michael Barone told a Hilton meeting room full of liberal Democrats, I mean academics, that mediums went after Sarah Palin because “she did not abort her Down syndrome baby.”

Later, he apologized, said he was joking.

But libs’ going ga-ga over Palin — not just mediums but your mine-run New York Times fan too — has to be explained as a cultural phenomenon.  And the culture is so pro-abortion that even if she were “pro-choice,” they would have been repelled by her decision not to abort this baby.

Thing is, she got in so many types’ faces with her self-assurance, good looks, and skill in communication that they had a visceral reaction.  How dare she?  That sort of thing.  The baby tore it, going so much against the grain of the basically eugenicist mentality of libs. 

My guess is some of them think there oughta be a law against doing something like that.  They go wild at the sight of someone doing it proudly.

Later: From Reader D:

Did you see Sarah with Greta Van Susteren on FOX Mon-Tues this week?  She never had to parse her answers, never had to equivocate, and she multi-tasked during the interview segments in her kitchen. (She was making cheese dogs for dinner!)

Hearing O’Reilly and Rove discuss her lack of “gravitas,” I came to the conclusion that they have “gravitas” mixed up with “sophisticated phony.” That’s the brand we’re used to seeing nightly on TV.

That is what she AIN’T.  She talks conversation — not script.  I wanna move to Alaska.