Half-term ex-governor Sarah Palin compares herself to Margaret Thatcher

[Synthaholic]

But for Thatcher, GB would have gone the way of Greece and Spain

You may be right. They were a mess.

But she wasn't a Conservative, by American standards. She was a Socialist, by American standards. She was only a Conservative by British/European/Socialist standards.

You don't give full-throated, complimentary endorsements of Universal Health Care is you are a Conservative.

You don't praise Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution if you are a Conservative.

You don't speak passionately at the U.N. (in 1989, no less) about the need for countries to come together to combat Climate Change if you are a Conservative.

By American standards, anyway.

 

[Synthaholic]

But for Thatcher, GB would have gone the way of Greece and Spain

They did go that way. The UK was bailed out by the IMF in 1976.

The Cabinet Papers | IMF crisis

How much of that was caused by the gas crisis? Was Britain hit as hard as the U.S. was?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Looks like I made Synth mad last night. Nothing to counter with but a neg.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Quit your whining, TK, you sound like a drunken Yurt.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

But for Thatcher, GB would have gone the way of Greece and Spain

They did go that way. The UK was bailed out by the IMF in 1976.

The Cabinet Papers | IMF crisis

Sigh.

I meant now.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

But for Thatcher, GB would have gone the way of Greece and Spain

They did go that way. The UK was bailed out by the IMF in 1976.

The Cabinet Papers | IMF crisis

How much of that was caused by the gas crisis? Was Britain hit as hard as the U.S. was?

Socialism hit Britain hardest

 

[JakeStarkey]

Maggie would throw you to the curb, Frank, since she was pro-choice, anti-gun, and pro-socialized health care.

 

[rightwinger]

Did Thatcher have wild sweaty sex with black basketball players?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Maggie would throw you to the curb, Frank, since she was pro-choice, anti-gun, and pro-socialized health care.

Too bad she's listed as a conservative, Leader of the conservative party in Britain from 1975 to 1990. She was noted to have been extremely upset with President Carter after he vetoed the sale of guns to the Royal Ulster Constabulary in 1979.

Moreover, Obamacare is nothing but a series of entitlements, to which Thatcher commented:

"I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."

-Margaret Thatcher, Women's Own Magazine, October 31, 1987

Oh and here's one especially for you, Jake:

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

-Margaret Thatcher


Her views on human rights:

"...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world’s population and defending it for most of the rest."

 

[JakeStarkey]

None of which, TK, you little deflector you (!), at which you are such a stumbler and bumbler, changes

1. MT was not for an armed to the teeth citizenry

2. MT was pro-choice

3. MT was pro-socialized health care

She and RR were so much further to your left, you would vote against them today.

 

[t_polkow]

Whow you guys are still scared of her.

Half a term that would beat Obama by about two years and Palin never promised not to quit. She only quit because of the hate spewed from the left. Obama quite because he is a liar.

Yea we are all afraid of sarah the bible thumping retard!! LOL

 

[chikenwing]

Sarah Palin thinks she’s Margaret Thatcher

For the former Alaska governor, describing the former prime minister is like looking in a mirror



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.”
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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.”
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Et, as they say, cetera.

If she is such a zero to you????

 

[Crackerjaxon]

Did Thatcher have wild sweaty sex with black basketball players?

Is that a qualification for the presidency now?

 

[Crackerjaxon]

If Sarah ever runs, I will vote for her even though she shows alarming neocon tendencies.

I'll do it because anyone who raises such ire among empty-headed liberals has to be alright.

Because that's more important to fake patriots like you, over the best interests of the United States.

It is certainly in the best interests of the United States to rid the government of liberals.

 

[TemplarKormac]

None of which, TK, you little deflector you (!), at which you are such a stumbler and bumbler, changes

1. MT was not for an armed to the teeth citizenry

2. MT was pro-choice

3. MT was pro-socialized health care

She and RR were so much further to your left, you would vote against them today.

How do you explain the quotes then? You can't. All you can do is repeat your talking points. Can you find me any positions on gun control that she had? I can't seem to find anything of her mentioning her opposition against it. Are we just making things up?

I'd vote for her based on her attitudes towards people like Muammar Qaddafi and her overall attitude towards national defense

(On Muammar Qaddafi)

"I didn't hug him, I bombed him."

(On the war in the Falklands)

"Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word."

I'd vote for her based off of her pro-Capitalist ideals

"The problem with socialism is the you end up running out of other people's money."

I would also vote for her because of her views on entitlements (which could be assumed to include Socialized medicine.)

"There is no such thing as a society."

I would vote for her based on her ability to strengthen the economy, which ironically Reagan did at virtually the same time.

Just because they hold some liberal views (and I do too by the way) does not mean I won't vote for them.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Did Thatcher have wild sweaty sex with black basketball players?

Is that a qualification for the presidency now?

Barack has Reggie Love, ya know

 

[CrusaderFrank]

None of which, TK, you little deflector you (!), at which you are such a stumbler and bumbler, changes

1. MT was not for an armed to the teeth citizenry

2. MT was pro-choice

3. MT was pro-socialized health care

She and RR were so much further to your left, you would vote against them today.

How do you explain the quotes then? You can't. All you can do is repeat your talking points. Can you find me any positions on gun control that she had? I can't seem to find anything of her mentioning her opposition against it. Are we just making things up?

I'd vote for her based on her attitudes towards people like Muammar Qaddafi and her overall attitude towards national defense

(On Muammar Qaddafi)

"I didn't hug him, I bombed him."

(On the war in the Falklands)

"Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word."

I'd vote for her based off of her pro-Capitalist ideals

"The problem with socialism is the you end up running out of other people's money."

I would also vote for her because of her views on entitlements (which could be assumed to include Socialized medicine.)

"There is no such thing as a society."

I would vote for her based on her ability to strengthen the economy, which ironically Reagan did at virtually the same time.

Just because they hold some liberal views (and I do too by the way) does not mean I won't vote for them.

Like all Leftists, Jake cannot forgive Thatcher or Reagan

 

[Toro]

But for Thatcher, GB would have gone the way of Greece and Spain

They did go that way. The UK was bailed out by the IMF in 1976.

The Cabinet Papers | IMF crisis

Sigh.

I meant now.

Don't you get it? They did go the way of Greece and Spain. Socialism ran the UK into the ground.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Whow you guys are still scared of her.

Half a term that would beat Obama by about two years and Palin never promised not to quit. She only quit because of the hate spewed from the left. Obama quite because he is a liar.

Obama has never quit an office. And Palin did not quit because of hate from the left. She quit because she could make more money, a lot more money, by becoming a celebrity.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

-Margaret Thatcher

For an Iron Lady, she sounds like she was pretty, damned wimpy.

Hell, Hillary Clinton was gettin' whacked, by EVERYONE, back when she was first talkin'-about health-care, back in the '90s.....and, she's BEEN standing, ever SINCE!!!​