I think it’s still permitted in most conservative circles to say that Sarah Palin is no Margaret Thatcher in the same sense that Dan Quayle was “no Jack Kennedy.” If it’s not? Tough.
Claire Berlinski, author of “There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters,” writing in Britain’s The Guardian:
Visiting Margaret Thatcher is a traditional rite among Republican presidential aspirants—Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney all pitched up on her doorstep in 2008. But Sarah Palin, who announced on her Facebook site this week that she hopes to secure a meeting with ‘one of my political heroines, the “Iron Lady”,’ has a more obvious claim to be Thatcher’s heir. She’s an attractive woman from Nowhere Fancy, just as Thatcher was, and snobs deplore her for it, just as they deplored Thatcher. That said, if Palin hopes to style herself as the second coming she has a few things to learn. She might wish to study Thatcher’s disciplined command of arguments, facts and statistics, for instance. . . . Palin has neither said nor written a line so far that would allow anyone reasonably to conclude that her opinions about economic and foreign policy are as cogent and informed as Thatcher’s. No one (not me, anyway) can argue with her conservative instincts, but to compare her ability to express them with Thatcher’s would be ludicrous.
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 