Last week, as the BBC invited listeners to an on-air debate over whether or not the somewhat ailing though very much alive Margaret Thatcher deserves a state funeral, Sarah Palin celebrated the Iron Lady's 85th birthday in a more refined manner: a Facebook message.
This was the second consecutive year Palin commemorated Tinknickers' special day, bookending a report this summer that the former governor and former prime minister would meet in Britain. Meanwhile, the Conservatives had just won their first general election in nearly two decades, and Palin seemed ambivalent about meeting the current PM, David Cameron. The Daily Mail quoted a person involved with setting up the Down Jackets-to-Downing Street summit: '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.'
Neither meeting ever took place, perhaps best explained by today's Jonathan Martin story of how a global celebrity runs her operation via one aide and a Blackberry. The report also displays Palin's general indifference toward the leaders of today's Republican Party, leaving candidates dangling for days or weeks; and yet she finds the time to celebrate the milestones of yesteryear icons like Reagan and Thatcher. It shows a desire to occupy some grand podium in history, but an unwillingness to earn it.
Posturing itself is not enough. One only needs a look to Britain to understand that. For while political observers have speculated that a consensus-seeking Tory leader like David Cameron is too wobbly to live up to his party's Thatcherite legacy, he's making the most sweeping cuts that country has seen since, well, Margaret Thatcher.
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Palin would be that way, with her hand on her hip, being as obnoxious as she possibly could.
Yeah, that would get co-operation between world leaders, a "snickety" USA president...
When one thinks too much of themselves, it becomes painfully obvious. Too bad the ignorant masses made her believe her own hype. When ignorance is praised as intelligence...it is too late to help them.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/6371685/sarah-palins-hubris-thatcher-edition.thtml
This is all the substance you're ever gonna see from the this lady folks! This is all she's got! Tweets and snarky messages on her "wall". Please restore some faith in this nation and make this lady irrelevant.
She has been given so much by so many, just for being "pretty". She became governor by slandering her mentor and questioning his faith.
For a gal that took 5 years to obtain an Bachelors degree, (Leaving Hawaii University because there were too many Asians) she thinks very highly of her intellect!
Pew Poll---As the midterm elections approach, there is every indication that voter turnout will be as high as in 2006, but unlike four years ago, Republicans – not Democrats – are now more engaged and enthusiastic about casting a ballot. The prospects for a GOP turnout advantage on Election Day are almost as favorable in the new Pew Research Center survey as they have been in all previous polls throughout the campaign.
Consequently, a considerably greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats still fall into the likely voter category. Moreover, the new survey shows that Democrats have lost ground among all voters: Currently, 46% of registered voters favor the Republican candidate in their district or lean Republican, while 42% favor the Democratic candidate or lean Democratic. In early September, 44% backed the Republican while 47% supported the Democratic candidate.
but hasn't the vaguest clue who they are, what they stood for
or what they accomplished.
I was under the impression by reports at the time
she had never heard of Thatcher.
Perhaps she would like to write a short paragraph
on her new favorite 'buzzwords' Saul Alinsky.
I doubt she knows anything about Alinsky other than what her handlers tell her to say!
Your entire blog is well thought out and indicates keen observation and a different slant on Palin. "It shows a (her) desire to occupy some grand podium in history, but an unwillingness to earn it".
That feels so true..
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43936.html
No one appreciates the power of interest rates (outside the fed). Owners of high quality debt prosper as rates fall. The carrying cost of the national debt falls. Money accelerates in the economy. As a result Reagan was the only Republican in the last 50 years to achieve decent job growth. It had NOTHING to do with his tax cuts, which were a wash, offsetting income tax cuts (at the top) with huge payroll tax increases (at the bottom).
And of course, the crowning Republican achievements of that era: Will Horton and Iran-Contra. Lest we forget, Saddam hussein was our boy back then, and we gave him his WMD's. Nonetheless, to finance an illegal war in Central America Reagan sold weapons to our arch enemy Iran, ran the money through the drug trade, and propped up our preferred brigands with very dirty money. Imagine a Democrat doing that. Democrats get impeached for fellatio. Yeah, Sarah, those 80's were something else.
An oversight I assure you!!