Sarah Palin writes:
"A very happy birthday to Baroness Thatcher! There are so many lessons we can learn from her excellent example. She once said, “If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.” She sure did. Like her friend Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher had a steel spine. Her excellent defense of the free market is as relevant and true today as it was two decades ago. I encourage people to visit her foundation’s website and listen or read her speeches. There is a wealth of inspiration in the timeless truths she lived and led by."
Will Thatcher explain to Palin her lifelong support for abortion up to birth, which she ensured became the law of this land while she was Prime Minister, with her proxies specifically and repeatedly citing the existence of Down's Syndrome as the reason why it was necessary, as they still do?
And will Palin explain to Thatcher her admirable history as a Buchananite battler for job protection, for war aversion, for immigration control and for family values against the archenemy of all of them, the global "free" market, together with her record as Governor of Alaska on the basis of publicly administered natural resources held in common ownership?
They are both overrated. But Palin is the better of the two.
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Good points. As you have pointed out here before, Reagan also signed the law that legalized abortion in California. The usual Republican retort is that the liberals "made him do it." Of course, the reality is that the economically libertarian Right had been pushing for legalized abortion as part of their anti-State agenda. "Get government out of my bedroom!" and all that.
ReplyDeleteWhen Reagan ran for president, however, he all of a sudden became a pro-lifer in order to help get votes from working-class Christian voters.