[lit-ideas] Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher treatment

  • From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:02:00 -0700

I watched Sarah Palin's speech last night - as well as a ton of Left-Wing
garbage from various sources.   Here is an interesting article about Sarah
from England:

 

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This is from the www.Telegraph.co.uk by Janet Daley comparing the current
Leftist criticism of Sarah Palin to that once aimed at Margaret Thatcher.  

 

"Like Margaret Thatcher before her, Mrs Palin is coming in for both barrels
of Left-wing contempt: misogyny and snobbery. Where Lady Thatcher was
dismissed as a "grocer's daughter" by people who called themselves
egalitarian, Mrs Palin is regarded as a small-town nobody by those who claim
to represent  'ordinary people'.

"What the metropolitan sophisticates failed to understand in the 1980s when
Thatcher won election after election is even more the case in the US: most
(and I do mean most) ordinary people actually believe in the basic
decencies, the "small-town values", of family, marital fidelity, and
personal responsibility. They believe in and honour them - even if they do
not manage to uphold them.

"Middle America - of which Alaska is spiritually, if not geographically, a
part - builds its life around those ideals and regards commonplace moral
lapses as part of the eternal struggle to be good. 

"The life of small-town USA is based on the principles of those Protestant
colonial settlers who founded the nation: hard work, self-improvement,
personal faith and family devotion. Mrs Palin speaks to and for them in a
way that patronising "liberal" elitists find infuriating."

Good stuff!  

 

Lawrence Helm

San Jacinto

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