I listened to her speech and she said that this time she will. I quote from her speech in Iowa:
"We should take the sign off the door to the Oval Office that says "No Girls Allowed.""
And, Sarah said this:
"We remember what Margaret Thacher would always remind her constituents, anyway, that if you want something said, you ask a man; if you want something done, you ask a woman."
These words are not ambiguous:
We are here in the name of freedom and you, Iowa, you get to help decide who will fight for it. You will caucus to help choose our next President. It's just about a year from now--I can't come soon enough!"
Sarah--Mamma Grizzly--is coming to take on the Hildebeast.
Don’t get your hopes up. There is no evidence that she is planning to run.
That’s a very good point. If Margaret Thatcher said she was going to do something, she darned well did it. She did not tease. She led.
In isolation that portion of Palin’s speech does indeed sound like she is going to run. The problem is, haven’t her supporters heard something similar in the past?
If she wants to channel Thatcher, she surely needs to be clear and decisive.
Don’t get me wrong, Palin has FAR more natural ability as a speaker than Thatcher did. But Thatcher had great discipline, and that inner steel (or maybe iron) that left people with no doubts about her intentions and convictions. I’d take that iron over flair any day of the week.
It might be worth pointing out that Thatcher was often mocked in her early days as Conservative leader. There is still hope, but Palin surely must buckle down, embrace the fight and the discipline that the fight requires. Leadership lies within and no external forces can alter that fact.