Wisdom from across the pond — Palin as America’s Thatcher
Posted on September 5, 2008
Telegraph’s Janet Daley: Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher treatment
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.
Even a Brit can see the American Left more clearly than it sees itself.
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Check out what Iran has to say about Palin
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2008/09/iran-loves-obama.html
Mohammad-Ali Fardanesh: 16 months. She was the mayor of a town of 10,000 residents. The previous governor of Alaska was a very corrupt man, and anybody running against him would have won. That’s how she won.
Since the Iranians hate her so much it shows what a great leader she will make.
At the same time here is what the Iranians think of Obama.
The problem with Mr. Obama is his education. He is a Harvard graduate. The Americans cannot accept him because they consider him an elitist – someone who thinks he is above others, because he is better educated. They don’t understand that his education would enable him to serve them better.
So, that’s practically another endorsement of Obama by another one of America’s enemies. It is time for those bumper stickers saying HWBV (How would bin Laden vote).