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I think more than one reason.

Maggie Thatcher is Rush’s ideal leader. He admires her as much or even more than Reagan.

Sarah Palin at one point seemed to Rush a possible type of Reagan and even more so, Maggie Thatcher. She had that potential in his mind, from things he said earlier on.

He’s got to feel conflicted and let down. He has said already, some time ago, that he had concluded she probably would not run. But he included a caveat that really, he did not know for sure what she was up to.

I believe he tired of waiting. He tired of not knowing for sure. People who thought her waiting game was great are one thing, Rush is another, entirely different animal. I believe he likes things clear cut. Often he says, of himself, that he lives in “Literalville”, not in some kind of wishing for or hoping for state of mind.

I don’t think he wanted to talk about Sarah Palin, for that reason.

And coming on top of her decision and almost burying it, was the death of Steve Jobs. Rush was clearly in mourning over it. You don’t have to agree with the time he gave it on his show, to accept the reality that he was grieving.

Levin said all he wanted and needed to say about her when he broke her news and interviewed her. I fully understand why he did not want to step on that moment by bringing it up again.

I don’t know why Beck avoided it, but Beck was so in for Sarah Palin it was painful to see. At the same time, he has always avoided committing himself to any politician. He has visited repeatedly with all of them but will not trust any of them enough to endorse them. Often he asks...”Where is our George Washington?” Says he keeps praying for our Washington, but hasn’t seen him yet.

But still, he was smitten both with Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann as potential great leaders. Gets on well with Rick Perry, too, and is in the process of moving to Texas. Yet, he held back committing to one them. So, given how things have turned out on that front, I doubt he wants to talk about Palin.

Must be kind of a wrenching subject.