The Thatcher Primary

Has the world gone mad? Katherine Jean-Lopez points out that Rudy Giuliani is taveling to the UK where he will "seek Baroness Thatcher’s blessing when he delivers the inaugural Thatcher lecture organised by Atlantic Bridge, a think tank, in London in September." Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson have already been to visit with her.

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Fer Thomas Paine's Sake, I thought we kicked their asses out of Yorktown 200 odd years ago. Now we have our own home-grown Traitors, er, Tories, recrossing the Atlantic to kiss their asses, er, rings? *blech*

Posted by calipygian | July 22, 2007 7:16 PM

Thatcher is their mother-goddess.

..who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families...

Posted by Davis X. Machina | July 22, 2007 7:43 PM

Has the world gone mad?

Yes.

Posted by gregor | July 22, 2007 7:47 PM

If they want to get some old lady's blessing why don't they just go visit Nancy Reagan? Unless maybe she's so fed up with today's GOP that she'd sick the dogs on them?

Posted by JonF | July 22, 2007 7:49 PM

If they want to get some old lady's blessing why don't they just go visit Nancy Reagan? Unless maybe she's so fed up with today's GOP that she'd sick the dogs on them?

She ticked them off by supporting stem cell research.

Posted by C.L | July 22, 2007 7:55 PM

Isn't she kinda senile right now with Alzheimer's or something? Did Republicans make Reagan do that in the 1990's, cuz that would just be cruel. Reagan has a son who is still a Republican. Why don't they get his support instead? Is he too tainted by Nancy's and Ron Jr.'s indiscretions on things like stem cell research and ballet and Nancy Davis's Playboy centerfold?

Posted by Reality Man | July 22, 2007 7:55 PM

Re: She ticked them off by supporting stem cell research.

If I recall correctly, Baroness Thatcher is pro-choice. Indeed, you have to look long and hard in all Britain to find anything remotely like America's social conservatism.

Posted by JonF | July 22, 2007 8:23 PM

"If I recall correctly, Baroness Thatcher is pro-choice. Indeed, you have to look long and hard in all Britain to find anything remotely like America's social conservatism."

That's the great thing about your base being too ignorant to know things like this while worshiping her as a surrogate Reagan.

Posted by Reality Man | July 22, 2007 8:59 PM

"That's the great thing about your base being too ignorant to know things like this while worshiping her as a surrogate Reagan."

Just Brilliant! This comment should be an article unto itself.

Posted by AllPaths | July 22, 2007 9:23 PM

Reality Man: she has almost no short-term memory after a stroke. I'm sure I read about it a more reputable paper, but Google throws up http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=436287 with much of the information I read in the Guardian.

Posted by Sam Kington | July 22, 2007 9:27 PM

If I recall correctly, Baroness Thatcher is pro-choice. Indeed, you have to look long and hard in all Britain to find anything remotely like America's social conservatism

They don't care. Your Thatcher fan isn't a cultural conservative, they will be agnostic about issues like that. They like Thatcher for the Falkland's war. A war that theoretically Reagan opposed. They probably like her *more* for pissing on Reagan because the "Latinists" won out in the Reagan administration and she told them all to go to hell.

They are looking for someone who just invades where they want, threatens to use nuclear weapons, pisses on everyone elses opinion and gets what they want. In other words a successful GW Bush instead of a failure. Militarism trumps any other concern.

Posted by Ed Marshall | July 22, 2007 9:52 PM

I think we should look at the UK in a different light, after the Blair fiasco. (The great unwritten story is the rise and fall of Tony Blair, and those who boosted him to a position of high power in the world.) It is sorta obvious that the Brits--at least the elites in the UK--would like to regain their status as regents of the world.

We should not be their enablers.

We are free people.

Posted by James Hogan | July 22, 2007 10:41 PM

Yet more kowtowing to foreigners! Are there no real Americans on the Republican side? Nothing but Euro-stooges?

Posted by leo | July 22, 2007 11:29 PM

The Republicans have sunk so low they've made me feel bad about how people are treating Thatcher. Thatcher! The woman with no heart. WTF?

Posted by Reality Man | July 23, 2007 2:34 AM

They go there, because Bush is poison here.

Posted by talboito | July 23, 2007 3:38 AM

It is sorta obvious that the Brits--at least the elites in the UK--would like to regain their status as regents of the world.

Not really, too messy and expensive, it's much more convenient to rule the world from The City.

Posted by novakant | July 23, 2007 6:30 AM

I meant London's financial district.

Posted by novakant | July 23, 2007 6:31 AM

Rudy should change his plans.

Ms. Thatcher believed she was having tea with a new resident

of the Home when Wrinkled Freddie came a calling.

Posted by Midwest Maggie | July 23, 2007 7:25 AM

Man, that has to be the greatest photographer in the world.

Because, y'know, she would so totally not look like that if you saw her in person.

Posted by serial catowner | July 23, 2007 8:36 AM