Never Wobbly (Lady Thatcher Bio- "I Hate Communists." )

Wall Street Journal ^ | 11-18-08 | Farrell

[Wegotsarah.com]

Conservatives of a fatalistic bent -- their numbers this month have swollen -- like to depress themselves with the maxim that government programs never perish. Statism's relentless march can be checked at times but rarely beaten back. Just look, they say, at those New Deal relics known as farm programs. And then they see Time magazine's cover this week -- Barack Obama pictured as FDR, with the cover line "The New New Deal" -- and they head for the window ledge. [snip]

But the greatest refutation of their dour outlook can be expressed in a single name: Margaret Thatcher.

When the Conservative Party came to power in 1979, Claire Berlinski reminds us in " 'There Is No Alternative,' " Britain was "widely regarded -- choose your favorite cliché -- as the Sick Man of Europe, an economic basket case, ungovernable, and a living warning to Americans that the wages of imperial sin is death." . [snip}

Her confidence is hard to explain -- "preternatural," Ms. Berlinski calls it -- but was rooted in an absolute belief that the socialism undermining her nation's economy was not just wrong but evil because of its corrosive effects on the human spirit. "I hate communists," she once declared to a visiting Congolese Marxist and his startled translator.[snip]

When David Frost, in the tutorial style of ABC's Charles Gibson addressing Gov. Sarah Palin, attempted to pin Mrs. Thatcher down on inconsistencies in the official version of the sinking of the Argentinean ship Belgrano, he elicited the following retort: "Do you think, Mr. Frost, that I spend my days prowling round the pigeonholes of the Ministry of Defense to look at the chart of each and every ship? If you do you must be bonkers."

[rockinqsranch]

“..I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, on the basis that it wasn’t her presidential campaign.”

Precisely what I was contemplating posting when I saw your post. I do believe had it been her campaign, she would have had no problem telling us all what was on her mind.

[Wegotsarah.com]

Clemenza, never talk against the family. -:)

Just kidding, yes, she has to learn her craft.

[piasa]

She said flat out Obama advocates socialism. What more do you need?

Definition of socialist: One who advocates socialism.

Good grief.

[Clemenza]

I have been called a Sarah basher for pointing this out. I think Sarah realizes that she needs to do her homework to not only make it to “the show” as they say in baseball, but to be a heavy hitter.

[calex59]

Just another Palin basher I see. She was hampered by the campaign, some of you idiots, and you are one judging by your statements, think that she was top of the ticket, she wasn't. She had to tailor her remarks and say what McCain wanted her to say, he put all kinds of crap off limits. Pallin has 10 times the guts the RINO pr***s we have in the GOP now, and she makes McCain look like a coward. Yep, he had guts back in the day and I thank him for his service, but he has none now, not when it comes to politics and fighting Democrats. He can rip Republicans a new easy enough but dems get a pass from him and a handshake. The jackass.

[Wegotsarah.com]

Great minds, my friend. -:)

[GoodDay]

“Palin is no Thatcher.”

Not yet. Give her a little time - she’ll get there.

After all, there was time when even Margaret Thatcher was no Margaret Thatcher.

[nmh]

I don’t know ....

Either you are or you are not. She’s too timid when it comes to really calling things what they are - socialism, evil (abortion and PBA) ... She had her moment and I don’t see her changing on that. Reagan didn’t mince words ... . I would have liked to see her do MUCH BETTER in the interviews and the debate. There are others, that will just COME OUT WITH IT!

[uglybiker]

Dead ones are okay.

At least they have some entertainment value.