Sarah Palin, Margaret Thatcher To Meet In London

Sarah Palin reportedly has plans in the works to meet with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she makes an upcoming trip across the pond to the United Kingdom.

British tabloid the Daily Mail first broke news of Palin's visit to the UK on Sunday, reporting that representatives for the ex-Alaska governor had reached out to Thatcher and asked "for a meeting as part of a bid to enhance her claim to be the 'heir to Ronald Reagan' and prepare to challenge Mr Obama."

According to the British tabloid, Thatcher accepted Palin's "informal" invitation to meet should she travel to London.

Meanwhile, Palin relayed news of her upcoming trip to the UK with a slightly different twist. When the ex-governor took to Facebook to address the matter Monday, she signaled that her arrangement to meet with Thatcher arose from an invitation extended by the former Prime Minister:

Following an article in a British publication on Sunday, I've received questions about a possible trip to the United Kingdom. I have received an invitation for a visit to London, and part of that invitation included the offer of arranging a meeting between myself and one of my political heroines, the "Iron Lady," Margaret Thatcher. I would love to meet her and hope I'll be able to arrange the trip in the future.

As I wrote last year when I offered her birthday wishes, Baroness Thatcher's life and career serve as a blueprint for overcoming the odds and challenging the "status quo." ... I cherish her example and will always count her as one of my role models. Her friendship with my other political hero, Ronald Reagan, exemplified the Special Relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Politico relayed confirmation from Palin's camp on her travel plans Monday afternoon, but did not refute the ex-governor's suggestion that her arrangement to sit down with Thatcher materialized from an invitation on the former Prime Minister's end -- an indication contradicting the Daily Mail's earlier report.

According to the Daily Mail, Palin has made no outreach to current Prime Minister David Cameron -- a gesture which the tabloid characterized as "embarrassing":

Any trip by Mrs Palin to Britain could cause potential problems for David Cameron.

Embarrassingly, Mrs Palin's team have not contacted No 10 so far.

One individual involved in the talks about the visit said: 'Palin's people haven't said anything about meeting Cameron. Their main interest is getting a picture of her with Lady Thatcher. I'm not sure they know who David Cameron is.'

Comments

[LastTexasRose]

05:59 AM on 06/28/2010

Wow, I know SP likes to twist the truth out of shape, but how did I'm going to inflict myself on Thatcher become Thatcher invited me?

[Bev Ashley]

09:00 AM on 06/19/2010

THE IRON LADY might tolerate THE GORILLA FROM WASILLA (This is Sarah Palin for all you newbies)

[Vernie31]

09:58 AM on 06/18/2010

Sarah to Margaret " Are we in Great Britain or England?"

[irishinohio]

06:22 PM on 06/17/2010

Maybe Palin can ask Thatcher if she wants to apologize to the families of Irish Peace Protestors murdered at the hands of her British Soldiers on Bloody Sunday in Derry, Northern Ireland......

[DaveScriv]

07:16 AM on 06/17/2010

Margaret Thatcher has dementia now, but as we know she was very intelligent and able in her prime (whatever you may think or her politics, she was certainly a workaholic who could absorb stacks of briefing papers), and was a chemist before she turned to politics. Dementia sufferers usually retain a lot of their older memories, mostly losing recent stuff; so even in her present state of health I suspect Thatcher will still realise YE creationist Palin is an utter loon.

Otherwise, during Palin's trip to the UK, I await with morbid interest (like looking at car crashes - you know you shouldn't, but...) to the reaction if she's dumb enough to say anything bad about the NHS. The entire political spectrum here (I'm in the UK) is agreed, the NHS works & will remain broadly as it is, although there will of course be continuing debates about the details of how it is run. The NHS is certainly safe under current Conservative/Coalition PM David Cameron because he appreciated it so much during the short life of his severely disabled son who needed constant treatment.

[Vernie31]

12:29 AM on 06/17/2010

Sarah to Todd " they sure sound funny over here, what language is that they are speaking?"

[maryann226]

09:43 PM on 06/16/2010

What a great meeting that will be ,one woman can not remember anything and the other one doesn't know anything.What a joke!!!

[Vernie31]

08:31 PM on 06/16/2010

Sarah to Margaret " will you take to the place where the guards wear "MOOSE SKIN HATS!"

[healthcarenow]

08:13 PM on 06/16/2010

Typical Palin...name-dropping: Reagan, Thatcher, David Cameron; doubt she could put together 3 sentences about any of them. Also doubt Margaret Thatcher will follow through with a meeting...why would she?

[kfodom]

06:40 PM on 06/16/2010

I'll bet Palin thinks David Cameron was in "Left Behind." ;-)

[readsnewspapers]

06:28 PM on 06/16/2010

Thatcher is an ill woman. But I guess this is the only person Palin can get to have lunch with? What dies Palin expect to accomplish with this?

[bcarb]

04:52 PM on 06/16/2010

Boy, Maggie sure owes someone a favor. Poor gal.

[MyAhaMoment]

03:53 PM on 06/16/2010

So because she goes to Britain and meets Thatcher, she'll then be qualified to challenge Obama. Ok, perfectly clear political strategy.

[treadway123]

03:06 PM on 06/16/2010

The headlines will read, "Sarah Palin takes advantage of Lady Thatchers Alzheimers desease, to score a photo op"! Ha, ha, I got to read that one!

[Barbie and Ken forever]

01:17 AM on 06/17/2010

Well that's mean

[Bev Ashley]

10:09 AM on 06/19/2010

What's mean is a stupid mongrel taking advantage of a sick woman for her own gain!!!

[treadway123]

03:03 PM on 06/16/2010

So she wants a Picture to Publicize her run for President? If I was Lady Thatcher I would run as fast as I can, an make a excuse of illness or something to stay away from Palin! She'd be crazy to meet with her NOW!

[Bozwellian]

06:54 PM on 06/16/2010

mmm...Thatcher is not classified as "crazy" but is well known she suffers dementia. It is a phot op opportunity for our dear Sara, one perhaps hse figures she can embellish one way or another for her own supposed stature. What is far moe troubling frakly, is that SP has a following that truly believe her capable for being a CIC--THAT is truly scary and quite peverse and a confliction of reality being played with . Palin ain't exactly "stupid", she is savvy enough to realize her "fortune" is to be made off this crappola while cares little to what damage she strews in her own wake !!!