Wasn’t it not so long ago when conservatives were mewling on with de rigeur victimhood about how political correctness (and the publicized ginned-up outrage that comes along with it) was going to destroy our country? E.g.:

Political Correctness has become an unfortunate way of life in this country and is slowly destroying her and the spirit of her people.

“[Rahm's] use of “retarded” has no more connection to people with Down Syndrome and other forms of retardation than his constant use of the F word refers to the act of coitus. “Moron,” imbecile,” and “idiot” used to be terms used by psychology to denote different gradations of retardation, but now we just use them as epithets, and that’s obviously how he was using “retarded.” Emanuel is a vulgar jerk, but can’t conservatives, at least, refrain from grievance-mongering and hair-trigger offense-taking? I realize pouncing on him is payback for all the stuff the Left does to us, but, really, someone has got to be a grown-up in this country, and conservatives are the only candidates left,” – Mark Krikorian, NRO.

Will Sarah Palin condemn Rush Limbaugh for calling congressional liberals “retards“? Deep breath. Will she demand that he be fired?