Posted on 02/17/2009 12:17:34 PM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
Exactly. John O'Sullivan, formerly a Thatcher advisor and editor-in-chief of the National Review wrote about this at length in an excellent piece in the WSJ. In it, he spoke of Palin's potential and as an expert on Thatcher, he commented that in the beginning, "Margaret Thatcher was not yet Margaret Thatcher".
Like Palin will have to do, Thatcher prepared herself before being elected PM, and as O"Sullivan points out she took a lot of abuse, including being dismissed by the intellectuals in her own party as a "Daily Telegraph woman", Brit-speak for "narrowed, repressed suburbanite" Sound familiar?
At any rate, O'Sullivan is extremely high on Palin. If you haven't read his book "The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister" I highly recommend it.
I think Gov. Palin has a lot of potential as a national leader, and it will be excellent if she pursues higher office again.
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