She hasn’t even been President yet, no woman has, yet Governor Palin is already the closest to Prime Minister Thatcher that this nation has ever produced.
What a frickin loser.
Where’s that popcorn .gif when you need it?
Pissant....you are a piece of work, going around looking for articles that bash Palin so that you can be notice, Palin was talking about Thatcher being in office having that steel spine, she wasn’t saying that she is dead, this trash article is a liberal wet dream bashing Palin
Pissant goes to liberals to justify his dislike for Palin
This looks like the handiwork of an evildoer, maybe an evildoer who is acting at the behest of Newt Gringrich!!
You sure can pick them, your author hates us conservatives, no wonder he despises Palin, the conservative base likes her.
Alex Massie
“If this new book is anything to go by, it seems that Romney remains determined to pander to the Republican party’s base. In some senses that makes sense. Their votes count too. But the trouble is that he’s tried this before. Perhaps practice makes perfect and Romney has been reprogrammed to be more convincing when he panders. Maybe. He could scarcely do worse than last time, even if I remain unconvinced Romney has mastered that whole Being a Human Being** thing that’s generally considered quite useful.
Theoretically the times should suit a technocrat such as Romney. Healthcare and budgets are things he understands. He is a fixer and a solver of problems. This ought to give Romney a significant advantage in the race for 2012.
Which makes it interesting that tedious stuff to do with policy and the things that actually have an impact on “ordinary” people’s lives is precisely what Romney is not “writing” about in this book. The left realised some time ago that red meat for the base and the kind of emotional rhetoric that sends the true believers home happy is not enough to win national elections. The American right persists in believing otherwise.
Then again, the GOP is increasingly a nationalist, not a national party. The title of Romney’s book acknowledges this. Who are these people apologising for being American? Well, Barack Obama obviously (if absurdly) and by extension all those who voted for him. Race has something to do with this, but it’s importance is not the whole drama. The rise of the people who tell the census that they’re American-American pre-dates the Obama era, even if we may expect Obama’s presidency to exacerbate the alienation felt by white southern and Appalachian men.
That alienation responds to emotion, not policy. It’s nationalism - or, if you prefer, its definition of patriotism - is instinctive, suspicious and belligerent, keenly aware that there are sell-outs and traitors everywhere. This, then, is the crew Romney is pandering to. Maybe he is right to do so, perhaps he needs to do this. Either way, it’s a sad commentary on the state of the modern conservative movement.
Just to be clear: the notion that Obama has been scurrying around the globe grovelling and apologising on behalf of the United States is utterly absurd. As candidate Obama said over and over again, he owes everything he has to the United States. It was America, after all, who gave his father the chance to come and study in the US. Without that there is no Barack Hussein Obama, far less a President Obama.
Nor can it be said that Obama’s foreign policy views diverge much from the American mainstream. They are, for the most part and at bottom, pretty conventional. Certainly there are few areas in which Obama’s views would have been considered extreme in, say, the time of the George HW Bush administration. Nor, needless to say, has he staffed his administration with radicals.
Still, that’s by-the-by. Romney’s little book - and it is bound to be terribly small - wrestles with a straw man. Sadly that’s only to be expected these days. The GOP has, for the time being at least, decided to double down on nationalism amidst an atmosphere of festering resentment. Denouncing your opponents as un-American isn’t serious politics, nor does it seem likely to be sufficiently persuasive in serious times. But at the moment, that’s where the GOP is at.
The polls may fluctuate and they may report unhappiness with aspects of Obama’s policies (no surprise there) but if you can judge a party by titles of the books it buys then you’d be hard pressed to see how the Party of Angry White Men is going to win back the Presidency on the back of a campaign fuelled by nationalist resentment.”
I like it better this way.
I always thought the parallels between Thatcher and Palin were rather strong: both are/were denigrated for their less than lofty social origins and education.
Malcolm Muggeridge tagged Thatcher as “Joan of Arc of suburbia”.
I have always thought of Palin as “Joan of Arc of exurbia”
Lame, even for a sissified MSM water-boy.
Obnoxious PDSers are to FreeRepublic what Pee Wee Herman was to adult theatres.
I want you to know that I now consider you to be an alleged conservative, and I'm beginning to suspect worse.
Only someone who sides with the left would be so obsessed with bringing down the leading voice of the patriotic right, as you are.
You're sick, pissant. Even a warning from Jim Robinson himself hasn't compelled you to give up this lunatic crusade of yours.
she was defenstrated when her party decided her obdurancy ...
Between the words we should read: "How dare an American woman consider herself worthy of wishing our Dame Thacher a happy birthday!" Consider the source. This is from the Tory UK Spectator, which denounces Israel, America's efforts in Iraq and, if truth be told, the Unionist Thatcher wing of the Tory party. The author would probably approve of a birthday gift of CDs to Dame Thacher as "Presidential".
Governor Palin's birthday wishes were appropriate and touching.
“Palin is to Thatcher what Mitt Romney is to Reagan.”
Pissant, that Falcon Party must be passing dubes and ‘shrooms around. Don’t let buzz harsh dude. Keep it mellow.
My goodness, you are getting desperate for Palin-bashing material — and you just “happened” to keep a fresh link to these British pinko commie faggot writers?
To quote Yogi Berra, “This is like deja vu all over again”.
The sublime, supreme living hero Sarah Palin is reaching down in kindness to Thatcher, an overrated baby killer and defender of aborting at birth from the land of now Muslim conquered beta-males. And your henpecked hero Ronald Reagan, the great sire of ron p.reagan and patti davis, killed more than 60 million with his 1969 California abortion on demand law his bitch wife hectored him into signing, ushering in Roe v. wade. Its too bad for the eventual two generations of 120 million babies lost that Sarah Palin wasn’t governor of CA in 1969 rather than Reagan. It killed our manufacturing base, our future engineers, physicists, scientists, skilled tradesmen, teachers, doctors, nurses, military and voter base coming from the 120 million + would be citizens never to arrive because their parents were aborted. Because Palin would never have signed the 1969 abortion on demand law that Reagan did, it makes her supreme to him and Thatcher.
“Palin is to Thatcher what Mitt Romney is to Reagan.”
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Pissant is to FR what Chris Matthews is to cable news.
Does spending all that time searching leftist media for Palin hit pieces give you a thrill up your leg?
- JP
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