I don’t really have any memories of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister. I was eleven when she left office. Of course, I was only nine when Reagan left office, but it’s a bit different when he’s the leader of your own country — plus all politics in America afterwards were very much influenced by him. What I do know about Thatcher is that whiny people really seemed to hate her, and there is no better aspiration for a politician than that.
Reagan and Thatcher seemed like quite a pair; they must have really given hope to conservatives that the biggest enemy of our countries — big government — could actually be tackled. We seem to have stumbled quite a bit since then, but it’s a good sign that even Democrats feel the need these days to pretend to like Reagan. I get the impression that in Britain, it’s not the same way with Thatcher. And that country is much worse off than we are. Someone can show you the way, buy you have to be man enough not to despise her for it.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
― Margaret Thatcher
That’s all you really need to know.
RIP
Yes, Ronald Reagan and Maggie made quite the pair. Those of us that watched it all unfold will wonder for a long time which of them scared Gorbachev more.
Obama has released a statement about her passing. Somewhere, there’s a ghostly voice aroud the White House hauntingly moaning, “Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuff it, Barack. Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuff it.”
According to Yahoe “news” , Annette Funicello is more “news”worthy than the greatest female leader in history, no wonder this country
is going downhas gone down the toilet.Of course the average Obama voter has no idea who either one of them is but they understand mouseketeer better than world leader.
Well…Annette did have initial notoriety for her “maturation” as a Mouseketeer along with those Beach Blanket movies where she, most pneumatically, inhabited her beach attire.
I am rather ambivalent about Thatcher, as I am about Churchill. Their respective, and similar, approaches to “the Irish Question” rankles down to my Celtic marrow, and those who are historic, as these two were, must be viewed in their totality. From an American and conservative perspective, they were singularly, and again, similarly, impressive. Though these people, in their aspects, were unrepentant in their wielding of the British strop and shackle.
What NO_MO_BAMA said.
What Jimmy said. Because I love me some Jimmy.
What CarolynthMommy said, although slightly modified!
First Reagan, then John Paul II, and now Margret Thatcher. (sigh)
And Castro STILL isn’t dead?
must be the beard.
Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister when I worked in London; I got to watch her face down the coal miners’ union. A great woman, indeed; I miss her.
I lived in the UK in 1977 when I was 10 years old. Unions made a mess out of everything, from public transportation strikes to factory shutdowns. Government-owned housing was a joke. As soon as Margaret Thatcher took office in 1979 the average GDP skyrocketed and it has been ever since. RIP Margaret Thatcher.
It was Reagan, Thatcher and a Polish Pope who worked together and brought down the Soviet Union. They were the ‘Axis of Good’. With little help from the Democrats, the Media or the Republican Party. They are missed.
Maggie is disliked, in part, because she embarrassed leftist males by showing them how a righteous man should act.