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Sarah Palin's Hubris: Thatcher Edition
Spectator UK ^ | 10/14/10 | Alex Massie

Posted on 10/13/2010 8:50:16 PM PDT by pissant

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To: JApost

You must be a blast at parties.


61 posted on 10/13/2010 10:33:56 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA ("Forces of Evil" member in good standing)
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To: JApost
Here are some words from Reagan: A Life In Letters -- Read pages 197-198.

October 11, 1979, Letter to Mr. Robert L. Mauro:

Dear Mr. Mauro:

I hope you won't mind my writing you about a recent column of yours suggesting that I might be preparing to abandon my anti-abortion position and that I signed a permissive abortion bill while I was governor. I think there are things I should make plain here.

First, my position is that interrupting a pregnancy means the taking of a human life. In our Judeo-Christian tradition, that can only be done in self-defense. Therefore, I will agree to an abortion only to protect the life of the prospective mother.

Now, with regard to the permissive bill I supposedly signed, let me give you the correct history of what took place early in my term as governor. A bill was introduced that was permissive, indeed abortion on demand. Naturally, there was great controversy about this bill. The author finally sent word that he would amend his bill to anything the governor thought he could sign. Faced with this responsibility, I probably did more study and more soul searching on the subject than I had done on anything in my eight years as governor. I came to the conclusion, as I have already stated, that it could only be justified to save a human life. . . . Perhaps it was my inexperience in government, but like so many pieces of legislation, there were loopholes that I had not seen, and the thing that made the California abortion bill become somewhat permissive in nature was violation of the spirit of the legislation by the very groups who were supposed to police it. This was particularly true in the case of psychiatrists. If faced with the same problem today, I can assure you I would make sure there were no loopholes in the bill. Indeed, I have already written Congressman Hyde telling him of my support for his amendment.

Again, please rest assured there is no way I could or would change my position with regard to my opposition to the permissive abortion that is taking place throughout our land.

Sincerely,
Ronald Reagan


62 posted on 10/13/2010 11:02:38 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
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To: pissant

Thanks — I think I’ll pass. I don’t have the time to devote.


63 posted on 10/13/2010 11:03:59 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
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To: WOSG; MaggieCarta; sickoflibs; rabscuttle385; AuntB; stephenjohnbanker; EveningStar; Mojave
There is the issue of ... depth ...Palin is to Thatcher as Lake Wobegone is to Lake Michigan.

Can't.... stop... laughing. LOL

64 posted on 10/13/2010 11:07:03 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
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To: calcowgirl

I haven’t had any other volunteers either. This could be a bloodbath. ;O)


65 posted on 10/13/2010 11:08:12 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: All

FalconParty caucus...yuck yuck.


66 posted on 10/13/2010 11:14:15 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: Truth101A

No, pissant thought you were calling Palin a loser. It’s called projection - a common affliction of PDS suffering leftdolts. (To be fair, on topics other than Palin, pissant is clearly not a leftdolt. Just pointing out the similarities on this topic.)


67 posted on 10/13/2010 11:18:09 PM PDT by piytar (There is evil. There is no such thing as moderate evil. Never forget.)
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To: Truth101A; pissant

No, pissant thought you were calling Palin a loser. It’s called projection - a common affliction of PDS suffering leftdolts. (To be fair, on topics other than Palin, pissant is clearly not a leftdolt. Just pointing out the similarities on this topic.)


68 posted on 10/13/2010 11:18:50 PM PDT by piytar (There is evil. There is no such thing as moderate evil. Never forget.)
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To: pissant
Palin's evident belief that she is some kind of Heiress to Thatcher

Maybe... kinda... sorta... uh...

69 posted on 10/14/2010 12:09:56 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: pissant
pissant, you know very well how much this is killing me, but all I have to say at this time is: "No comment."

Absolutely none. Nope. Not going to say a thing.

70 posted on 10/14/2010 12:15:26 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: MaggieCarta

Wise choice!!


71 posted on 10/14/2010 12:21:34 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
Wise choice!!

;) You betcha!

72 posted on 10/14/2010 12:34:23 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: calcowgirl; WOSG
Absolutely. No. Comment. At. This. Time.

My lips hurt from pressing them together...

73 posted on 10/14/2010 12:39:21 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: pissant

One good thing Sarah Palin has done is to support women in this year’s elections.

She’s going to need them if she is President Of The United States.

Margaret Thatcher was betrayed by the male anti-soverignty Europeanists of the Tories-the CINO’s when they deposed her from power in 1990.

The male RINO’s will be Sarah’s worst enemies on her way to the White House and when she finally gets there.


74 posted on 10/14/2010 1:09:21 AM PDT by Nextrush (Slocialist Republicans and Socialist Democrats need to go)
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To: pissant

Did Thatcher bring down British socialized health care with a ‘death panels’ comment like Palin did here with Obama-care? Thatcher is no Palin.


75 posted on 10/14/2010 5:20:48 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: pissant

“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.”

Read More http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010?printable=true#ixzz12LJ7zmmI


76 posted on 10/14/2010 7:27:40 AM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: Bigtigermike

I think pissant is Wolf Blitzed.....


77 posted on 10/14/2010 7:48:25 AM PDT by GregB (Pissant is the antichrist!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I bet they are members of the MSM!!!


78 posted on 10/14/2010 7:50:51 AM PDT by GregB (Pissant is the antichrist!!!)
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To: pissant
Shame you don't devote as much time to your (alleged) daughters) as you do on the www trashing Sarah Palin.

Question:

Which is greater?
The number of homes your daughters will receive candy from on Trick or Treat night or the number of votes Duncan Hunter received in the 2008 GOP primaries?

79 posted on 10/14/2010 10:09:27 AM PDT by jla
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To: jla
(alleged) daughters

That's vile, even for a Palin cultist.

80 posted on 10/14/2010 10:19:12 AM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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