Posted on 11/17/2008 8:06:32 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com
Conservatives of a fatalistic bent -- their numbers this month have swollen -- like to depress themselves with the maxim that government programs never perish. Statism's relentless march can be checked at times but rarely beaten back. Just look, they say, at those New Deal relics known as farm programs. And then they see Time magazine's cover this week -- Barack Obama pictured as FDR, with the cover line "The New New Deal" -- and they head for the window ledge. [snip]
But the greatest refutation of their dour outlook can be expressed in a single name: Margaret Thatcher.
When the Conservative Party came to power in 1979, Claire Berlinski reminds us in " 'There Is No Alternative,' " Britain was "widely regarded -- choose your favorite cliché -- as the Sick Man of Europe, an economic basket case, ungovernable, and a living warning to Americans that the wages of imperial sin is death." . [snip}
Her confidence is hard to explain -- "preternatural," Ms. Berlinski calls it -- but was rooted in an absolute belief that the socialism undermining her nation's economy was not just wrong but evil because of its corrosive effects on the human spirit. "I hate communists," she once declared to a visiting Congolese Marxist and his startled translator.[snip]
When David Frost, in the tutorial style of ABC's Charles Gibson addressing Gov. Sarah Palin, attempted to pin Mrs. Thatcher down on inconsistencies in the official version of the sinking of the Argentinean ship Belgrano, he elicited the following retort: "Do you think, Mr. Frost, that I spend my days prowling round the pigeonholes of the Ministry of Defense to look at the chart of each and every ship? If you do you must be bonkers."
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I hate communists.
Dead ones are okay.
More than once I have lamented that the best era in which I have had the privilege to live was when Ronald Reagan was in the White House and Margaret Thatcher was at 10 Downing Street.
I have always had nothing less than deep respect and admiration for Margaret Thatcher.
Reagan is simply my hero.
Awesome t-shirt idea. Her face on it with the that quote.
Thatcher had you know whats.
She’d call a SOCIALIST a SOCIALIST and not beat around the bush. Palin is no Thatcher. Paln needs to grow a set and call a spade a spade.
Only if they are dead before they breed. ;-)
A fitting epitaph for the 21st century will be “I Hate Communists”.
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"Palins" ??? -:)
“Dead ones are okay.”
LOL! Thanks. I needed that.
“The Iron Lady still has it.”
Sadly, this is not true. To quote the article “...her mind is clouded by recent strokes”.
(quote is from memory..I may not have the precise wording but the information is there and is correct)
“Palins” ??? -:)
Just hoping Palin grows a set.
She’s too nice about things ... throws out a barb, then backs off. She doesn’t dare call ole Obomination what we all know he is ... a dam socialist. She just couldn’t get that nasty little fact out in the open.
And hippies.
No they’re not OK - they vote Democrat even when dead.
More than once I have lamented that the best era in which I have had the privilege to live was when Ronald Reagan was in the White House and Margaret Thatcher was at 10 Downing Street.
I have always had nothing less than deep respect and admiration for Margaret Thatcher.
Reagan is simply my hero.
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Ah, for the good old days. I have never in my life felt more pride nor a closer unity to Great Britian. Reagan now belongs to the ages and soon, Lady Thatcher will join him. I shall grieve for her as if she were my own countryman.
nmh, you might be right. I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, on the basis that it wasn’t her presidential campaign. But, when and if it’s her turn, if she bails, I’ll be with you. But, I don’t think she will.
Note to Sarah: Less Cornpone, and more Filet Mignon.
Lord God, in Your mercy, please reincarnate Your faithful servants Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Karel Wojtyla.
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