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Related: About this forumSarah Palin thinks she’s Margaret Thatcher
For the former Alaska governor, describing the former prime minister is like looking in a mirror
BY ALEX HALPERIN
Heres how a former half-term governor described Margaret Thatcher in National Review today. Sound familiar?
As she continues:
Et, as they say, cetera.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/sarah_palin_thinks_shes_margaret_thatcher/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Just like Sarah!
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I wish she was.
Just kidding. Don't want to get in trouble. From what I've read here about Thatcher, she does sound very much like Sarah. I bet they would have gotten along great.
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)DFW
(54,055 posts)"Who's the biggest Ditz of all?"
"Why YOU are, dear Sarah!!"
"Oh, THANK you, dear mirror!! While I'm on the subject, what IS a Ditz, anyway?"
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)note to jury: "Booby hatch" is used here as a colloquial reference to an Insane Asylum, not to a portion of the female anatomy.
...and whereas I am not trying to slur the mentally ill, ye olde "booby hatch" might be the right place for Ms. Palin.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Thatcher ever feeling sorry for herself in public.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)See? You can find something nice to say about just about everyone!
And, in the words of Dorothy Parker, if you can't find something nice to say, come sit next to me.
tanyev
(42,360 posts)Early in the 2008 campaign, when John McCains aides discovered that Alaska-size gaps existed in Palins general knowledge (among those previously unreported: she had no idea who Margaret Thatcher was), they from time to time would give her some books to read in hopes of improving the candidates learning curve.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/09/01/116923/palin-political-heroine-thatcher/
Unflippinbelievable.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)What a total disgrace. Ugh.
Fuck you, John McCain. Seriously, fuck you. "Country First", my ass.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)say what you will about the evil old hag, she at least finished her term.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)I'm on my phone and wll come back and edit with more details when I get to my computer...
Tennessee Hillbilly
(575 posts)"I'm just like her, you guys", Palin tells the crowd. Then she turns and whispers to an aide: "Who the heck was Margaret Thatcher?" Meanwhile Palin's fans in the crowd are wondering too.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Turborama
(22,109 posts)And if she had integrity it was all about privatization of public assets, destruction of unions, free market neo-liberalism.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)NPolitics1979
(613 posts)Sarah only served 2 years as Governor.
Margaret did not say- I can see Russia from my home.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)I will at least give her credit for working hard, completing her terms in office, and speaking in complete and coherent sentences. Caribou Barbie, however, is once again suffering from delusions of adequacy. You're no Margaret Thatcher, Sarah.
Blue Idaho
(4,988 posts)gutting trade unions, causing riots in the streets, proposing a poll tax, and widening the gap between the rich and poor?
Britain would have been better off if she had the political stamina of that half term empty headed twit from Alaska.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)And no doubt, Britain certainly would have been better off if Thatcher had been as much of a quitter as Palin. My point was simply that Palin obviously thinks Thatcher was wonderful, and that she (Palin) is insanely comparing herself to Thatcher. Neither of them is or was wonderful in any respect, but they were awful in different ways. Thatcher was a cold-hearted ideologue who worked hard at it. Palin is a cold-hearted ideologue who is also lazy and stupid.
Blue Idaho
(4,988 posts)Especially about the lazy and stupid part...
TRoN33
(769 posts)Hey Sarah, when will she finally realize that her rhetoric is the reasons why she can't become Madam President of this country? Thatcher was a leader that resigned with almost no dignity left while Sarah quits her governorship post with absolute no dignity because she left Alaska for lucrative (yet she failed badly) contracts worth in $8 million of dollars along with $5 million of dollars in total of speaking fees.