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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 06:49 PM Apr 2013

Sarah 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


Here’s how a former half-term governor described Margaret Thatcher in National Review today. Sound familiar?

She was at heart a populist taking on the Conservative party’s old guard, who disdainfully referred to her as “That Woman.” The disdain was mutual. She referred to them as “the not so grand grandees.” As Thatcher later said, “It didn’t matter what they called me as long as I got the job done. I mean, to me they were ‘Those Grandees.’ They just don’t know what life is like. They haven’t been through it. And eventually if they didn’t help our cause, they had to go. But it didn’t bother me too much that they were patronizing like that. Frankly, the people, who are the true gentlemen, deal with others for what they are, not who their father was. Let’s face it: Maybe it took ‘That Woman’ to get things done, and the real reason why they said it was because they knew they just hadn’t got it within them to see things through.”


As she continues:

In taking on the “Those Grandees,” she wasn’t afraid of having strong opinions and fighting for them — something the establishment often found distasteful. British ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons recalled a conversation about this: “She said, ‘You know, Tony, I’m very proud that I don’t belong to your class.’ I said, ‘Prime Minister, what class do you think I belong to?’ She said, ‘I’m talking of course about upper-middle-class intellectuals who see everybody else’s point of view and have none of their own.’” And, of course, like all conservatives and trailblazers, she had to endure more than her share of vicious media attacks. Sir Archie Hamilton once recounted how he asked Thatcher whether she read the daily newspapers. “‘Oh no!’ she replied, ‘They make such hurtful and damaging remarks about me and my family, that if I ever read the papers every day, I could never get on with the job I am here to do.’” I know exactly what she meant. And as she said, “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”


Et, as they say, cetera.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/sarah_palin_thinks_shes_margaret_thatcher/
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Sarah Palin thinks she’s Margaret Thatcher (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2013 OP
In other words, she wasn't always right, but she was never in doubt. Scuba Apr 2013 #1
Today, Politicalboi Apr 2013 #2
Did she die today too? idwiyo Apr 2013 #3
You mean, that's how Palin's GHOSTWRITER described Maggie Thatcher MotherPetrie Apr 2013 #4
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall...." DFW Apr 2013 #5
More like "Booby Hatch-er". Warren DeMontague Apr 2013 #6
Though she had horrible politics and values, I don't recall geek tragedy Apr 2013 #7
Well, now, there's one good thing you can say about Thatcher: she's not Sarah Palin. Squinch Apr 2013 #8
Impressive, considering Sarah didn't even know who Thatcher was in 2008. tanyev Apr 2013 #9
LOL. nt SunSeeker Apr 2013 #21
That's just unbelievable. BlueStater Apr 2013 #22
Thatcher didn't quit her job to get a reality show Adenoid_Hynkel Apr 2013 #10
Actually Thatcher left under without completing her term a cloud Turborama Apr 2013 #19
You guys Tennessee Hillbilly Apr 2013 #11
Thatcher without the kindness, intelligence & integrity, maybe. baldguy Apr 2013 #12
Thatcher was the antithesis of kind Turborama Apr 2013 #20
Exactly. baldguy Apr 2013 #24
Margaret served 12 years as PM, NPolitics1979 Apr 2013 #13
As much as I detested Margaret Thatcher... The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2013 #14
Will you also give her credit for destroying the British Economy, Blue Idaho Apr 2013 #15
Thatcher was horrible, no two ways about it. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2013 #16
I completely agree with you. Blue Idaho Apr 2013 #17
Sarah Palin... No kidding... TRoN33 Apr 2013 #18
I saw a copy of her original draft of this article, all it said was "Who's Margaret Thatcher?" TeamPooka Apr 2013 #23
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
2. Today,
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 06:56 PM
Apr 2013

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.

DFW

(54,055 posts)
5. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall...."
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:07 PM
Apr 2013

"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)
6. More like "Booby Hatch-er".
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:18 PM
Apr 2013

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)
7. Though she had horrible politics and values, I don't recall
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:25 PM
Apr 2013

Thatcher ever feeling sorry for herself in public.

Squinch

(50,774 posts)
8. Well, now, there's one good thing you can say about Thatcher: she's not Sarah Palin.
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:29 PM
Apr 2013

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)
9. Impressive, considering Sarah didn't even know who Thatcher was in 2008.
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:36 PM
Apr 2013
A new Vanity Fair profile reveals some new information about former half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Like this:

Early in the 2008 campaign, when John McCain’s aides discovered that Alaska-size gaps existed in Palin’s 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 candidate’s learning curve.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/09/01/116923/palin-political-heroine-thatcher/



Unflippinbelievable.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
22. That's just unbelievable.
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 04:46 AM
Apr 2013

What a total disgrace. Ugh.

Fuck you, John McCain. Seriously, fuck you. "Country First", my ass.

 

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
10. Thatcher didn't quit her job to get a reality show
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:38 PM
Apr 2013

say what you will about the evil old hag, she at least finished her term.

Turborama

(22,109 posts)
19. Actually Thatcher left under without completing her term a cloud
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 02:05 AM
Apr 2013

I'm on my phone and wll come back and edit with more details when I get to my computer...

11. You guys
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:38 PM
Apr 2013

"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.

Turborama

(22,109 posts)
20. Thatcher was the antithesis of kind
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 02:09 AM
Apr 2013

And if she had integrity it was all about privatization of public assets, destruction of unions, free market neo-liberalism.

NPolitics1979

(613 posts)
13. Margaret served 12 years as PM,
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 09:00 PM
Apr 2013

Sarah only served 2 years as Governor.
Margaret did not say- I can see Russia from my home.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
14. As much as I detested Margaret Thatcher...
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 10:10 PM
Apr 2013

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)
15. Will you also give her credit for destroying the British Economy,
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 10:18 PM
Apr 2013

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)
16. Thatcher was horrible, no two ways about it.
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 10:29 PM
Apr 2013

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.

 

TRoN33

(769 posts)
18. Sarah Palin... No kidding...
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 10:57 PM
Apr 2013

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.

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