Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing
Rush Limbaugh joins supporters accusing Thatcher's circle of disgracing former PM with 'Palin is nuts' comment
Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 June 2011 20.39 BST

A firestorm on the US right has erupted after the Guardian reported that Sarah Palin will be denied a meeting with Lady Thatcher on the grounds that it would be "belittling" for her to meet the darling of the Tea Party movement.

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host, devoted the opening section of his radio show to denouncing the "preposterous" Guardian report, as Palin supporters accused Thatcher's circle of disgracing the former prime minister.

The US conservative right reacted furiously after the Guardian reported that Thatcher's aides had decided it would be inappropriate for her to meet Palin, who is planning to visit London next month en route to Sudan. Palin has been touring US historical sites (an excursion that saw her slip up this week on the subject of Paul Revere, the American patriot who made a famous "midnight ride" to warn of approaching British forces).

One Thatcher ally told the Guardian: "Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts."



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/09/margaret-thatcher-sarah-palin-meeting

[DrDan]

1. that is rich . . . . best article of the day!

Let me get this straight. She is going to stage an Independence Day event in London. And she does understand American History - she said so the other day.

An Independence Day event in London.

amazing.

[barbtries]

51. actually iirc

she knows "her" american history. i don't think any mention was made of the rest of the world, or understanding. but maybe it's a different quote...

[MadMaddie]

71. You can't make this stuff up can you?

She is stupid and she is surrounded by other idiots.

[tigereye]

101. +1

[Sequoia]

2. It would belittle all of England who'd say, "Why the bloody 'ell didn't we win that war.

[nichomachus]

6. Especially since they were warned with "bells" and "shots" and stuff

[awoke_in_2003]

74. ...

:rofl:

[JAnthony]

144. Yes, Paul Revere was warning the British, that....

Sarah Palin was coming Sarah Palin was coming!!!!!

[awoke_in_2003]

73. Sometimes...

I wish you had- we'd probably have a good healthcare system.

[MH1]

192. +1

[NBachers]

99. They lost 'cause Paul Revere warned Americuns not to let the British confiscate our arms & evrything

Skyrocketing blood pressure, exploding heads, and shredded heart tissue- I love it!

[meow2u3]

158. That, and forest warfare

The 18th century Brits were inexperienced in forest warfare, whereas the Patriots knew the lay of the land. That's what we call home field advantage now.

[tclambert]

136. Maybe Lady Lara Croft would meet with her. She's fond of big guns.

Although Lady Croft knows stuff, like facts and history and such that Lady Palin never had any inclination to learn. So they might not have much to talk about.

What they have most in common is that neither one is real.

[Angry Dragon]

3. I find it very rude that Ms. Thatcher will not meet with just any

American tourist just passing through England

[ejpoeta]

4. hey, if it pisses off the right wing, thatcher's a-ok in my book!

you know, i'd say palin reminds me of the griswold's who went on that european vacation they won on the game show... but i wouldn't want to insult a fictitious family like that. and yes i meant the griswold's.

[meow2u3]

159. Palin makes Thatcher look like a lady by comparison

Palin's nothing but a self-centered, childish, personality-disordered publicity hound. If Thatcher, a die-hard conservative, refuses to meet with Failin, that ought to open the eyes of the average American to Failin's true nature: a dangerous excuse for a woman.

[Raschel]

170. Sarah Griswold- Palin. I love it!

[Hubert Flottz]

5. "Lady Thatcher" don't have time to waste on the Clampetts.

[GodlessBiker]

9. Hey!! The Clampetts were kind, gentle people who welcomed all into their household.

Well, maybe Granny had a problem with a person or two. But still.

That is a far cry from Palin.

Leave Jed and Granny alone! ;-)

[HopeHoops]

13. Granny ALSO kept a shotgun handy!

[GodlessBiker]

16. Yeah, but her bark was worse than her bite.

[HopeHoops]

17. Jethro didn't seem to think so!

[GodlessBiker]

20. If only Palin dealt with her children the way Granny dealt with Jethro.

[HopeHoops]

22. I bet Jethro and Ellie knew what rubbers were and used them!

The only thing the Palin's know about rubbers is that they're boots you put on when you pretend to be fishing for a "reality tv" camera. That's obviously the ONLY kind they know about.

[GodlessBiker]

26. Their rubbers were probably made of sheep intestine or something. But they used them, I'm sure.

[awoke_in_2003]

76. "I bet Jethro and Ellie knew what rubbers were and used them!"

there is a good joke there just hanging like a softball :)

[guitar man]

61. Yeah but unlike Sara

Granny knew how to use it all by herself, and she could hit what she was aiming at :D

[Thor_MN]

118. And knew how to hit something with it.

[Bake]

168. Loaded with rock salt, apparently!

And usually aimed at Mr. Drysdale's (or Jethro's) backside!

:rofl:

Bake

[JVS]

68. Granny had a problem with nearly everyone until convinced the particular individual was ok.

[Bake]

167. Damn right!

Jed had a well defined sense of right and wrong.

Weeeeeeellll doggies!

Bake

[paparush]

172. That's it...Palin's a double nought spy.

[hifiguy]

187. But she's even dumber than Jethro Bodine

which is saying something that truly shrivels the mind even though Jethro was a fictional character.

[Libby2]

193. Okay, that cracked me up! lmao

[Old and In the Way]

21. Laughing My Ashcroft!

I never connected Palin to the Beverly Hillbillies, but it fits, don't it? I can see her riding atop her bus with the entire brood of Tarp, Trip, Tig, Mig, and Meth joining in the fun of celebrating our Independence day in Britain. What could go wrong? She should be allowed to address the House of Lords/Commons and give them the real facts, as she knows 'em, on the Revolutionary War. First Dude can explain why he's a big supporter of modern day secessionist movements, too!

[Hubert Flottz]

43. Mig Tig Frack and Frigg don't even know how to approach Lady Margo

John McDrysdale opened a can of pure old BUSHit when he let Pandora Barbie on his bus. From the day her water broke back in Texas that time, she's been spreading her toxic waste far and wide. She won't be happy until she has the teabaggers all screaming "Kill Him" again this cycle. She tries her best to ignite the right. She won't be happy until she starts another Civil War. I know Bush was stupid, but I think Sarah is even more ignorant and selfish.

I think the next batch of Palin whelplings will be the twins, Plasma-arc and Carbon-arc, or maybe 7018 or 6010. Maybe the Palins should move to Hobart or Lincoln?

[Hotler]

155. "Plasma-arc and Carbon-arc, or maybe 7018 or 6010" I just blew coffee everywhere.

Pin hole or slag. Sweet! Welding humor. I love it. Must be in the steel business.

[Hubert Flottz]

165. I have burnt a few tons of rods and run a few spools of wire in my lifetime.

About 40 years worth. HELL of a way to make a living. I've dealt with a lot of red hot Devils, so the old scratch won't have many surprises for my old pock marked hide.

[hifiguy]

185. Grift, Fuelrod and Meltdown

might also be in the mix. The last two courtesy of Zippy the Pinhead.

[Anakin Skywalker]

48. Funny! +1. "Tarp, Trip, Tig, Mig, and Meth". Too funny!

[Myrina]

138. ... this is begging for a photoshop! Anyone??!?!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[GodlessBiker]

7. Yes, Palin was disgraced (again), but was she justifiably disgraced? I'd say so.

[flakey_foont]

8. more outrage!!

Geez, but they are a sensitive lot!
Doesn't take much to put a bee in their bonnets.
Reminds me of a spoiled child, can't get their way so they tantrum
on the floor in the aisle in Wal-mart!!

[Blasphemer]

10. LOL! The right-wing becomes more and more of a joke everyday

In no way, shape or form does a former U.S. Governor who couldn't be bothered to complete her term warrant a meeting with a former PM.

[George Wythe]

11. Does Thatcher even know who Palin is?

[dipsydoodle]

24. Thatcher may not even know

who Thatcher is /was. She was suffering from dementia back in 2008 and is hardly likely to be much changed now. I never wish harm on the afflicted and think she's best just left in peace. I've no idea exactly what Palin's Posse had in mind.

[demigoddess]

84. I also heard she had alzheimer's and thought it rather stupid

that Palin could just show up and think she can get a photo op in spite of what might be good for Mrs. Thatcher. Or even possible.

[jmowreader]

69. How could she not?

Sarah Palin visiting London represents the greatest threat to US/UK relations since the Burning of Washington.

[JenniferJuniper]

93. Advanced dementia n/t

[dflprincess]

113. Palin or Thatcher? n/t

[JenniferJuniper]

119. Maggie. Palin is just a moron with an assortment of personality disorders. n/t

[tigereye]

102. he!

:rofl:

[murielm99]

126. I wonder how Palin knows who Thatcher is.

Someone must have told her.

[Raschel]

171. Exactly. Like she knows a thing about Thatcher.

[Kurovski]

201. She has a cooking show on the BBC, as is Sarah's understanding.

And the BBC is a spy agency, Sarah also reveals.

[bigworld]

12. Who does Sarah Palin think she is?

Why should Lady Thatcher meet with just anyone? A half-term governor of a tiny-population US state really has no business meeting with the former PM of the UK and shouldn't expect to be received.

[Historic NY]

15. She ain't no lady.

[arikara]

66. No indeed.

n/t

[loveable liberal]

14. This added a smile to my face. 8D

Sarah Palin is dumb as a bag of hair.

[tanyev]

18. Heh.

:evilgrin:

[JBoy]

19. I like the right's "Margaret would never say that" meme.

Ummm, yes she would.

[Stevenmarc]

23. Perhaps if she had a Letter of Introduction from Paul Revere

[Anakin Skywalker]

45. +1. Funny!

[madmom]

25. Why is palin wearing the Star of David in that picture?.....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/09/margaret-thatcher-sarah-palin-meeting

[oldbanjo]

29. Wasn't she in NY, while at the motorcycle rally she wore a cross.

She'll do what ever it takes to get a vote.

[tigereye]

104. what votes?

:rofl: This is all for show.

[asjr]

30. She's hedging her bets. Last time she wore a cross.

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. For relgiious pandering reasons

She was ostentatiously wearing a big cross a few days before in Washington: http://www.politicususa.com/en/bill-maher-sarah-palin , but for New York, she thinks a Star of David gets more potential buyers of 'her' books or marks for her speaking engagements.

[Iggo]

166. Oh! 'Cause New York is full of Jews!

I get it now.

: rolleyes gif of some hot chick :

[Anakin Skywalker]

47. Her name is Sarah "Pandering" Palin, OK?

[AndyTiedye]

98. Let's See Her Wear That in Sudan

It said in the OP she is going to Sudan next. I bet that will go over well there.

[colorado_ufo]

164. She's already shopping E-bay for a star and crescent.

[Nihil]

173. Looks like a great photo-op ...

... either of her running like Hell away from the angry crowd
or of her wearing the Crescent of Islam to pander to the locals!

:rofl:

[tigereye]

103. she is just so ludicrous, laughable, so full of herself.

It's just bizarre. Why the hell anyone takes her seriously is beyond me.

[leftynyc]

132. It was Independence Day for Israel

that day. She wore it to show solidarity. As a Jewish woman I don't find it exactly insulting (anyone can wear what they want) but find it pandering of the worst kind as I understand it's an entirely selfish support. While she and her evangelical supporters purport to support Israel, it's merely so Israel is in place for their end times nonsense. They'll be perfectly okay when (in their sick minds) Jews will be cast into the pits of eternal fire for not buying into the Jesus myth. My family in Israel calls them useful idiots.

[Raschel]

174. That was the day she was Jewish-spice, at the veterans rally she was biker-spice.

[la la]

198. and--all the time-

she's dumbschitt spice! ;>)

[oldbanjo]

27. Margaret Thatcher earned the right to snub this dumb ass

[sulphurdunn]

28. The greatest threat

to the Sara Palin show is ridicule. Any spark of it must be extinguished quickly or Sara could go up like dry tinder in a strong wind.

[Frank Cannon]

130. Which is why it must continue

I hope this emboldens leaders the world over to continue to marginalize her and treat her like the sad, sick joke she is.

[asjr]

32. Will she fly her bus over?

[montanto]

33. So far nobody denies that she's nuts.

[BrightKnight]

34. Saint Ronald would would have called her nuts too.

He was an asshole but he was not always an idiot. I am certain that he would not have wanted her anywhere near the Whitehouse.

[damntexdem]

35. Good. Oh, and also ...

LOL

[onehandle]

36. Palin is an ignorant reality show grifter. Thatcher, love her or hate her, is a historical figure.

Kudos to Thatcher's aides.

[PuffedMica]

37. It is so much fun hearing the low-lives in the neighborhood argue at night

It kinda takes the edge off having insomnia.

[PuffedMica]

38. K&R

[edbermac]

39. So what doesn't infuriate the right wing?

:shrug:

[Canuckistanian]

42. Rich people getting more money

And poor people suffering. This is entertainment for them.

[avebury]

40. But she is nuts! The truth hurts. LOL!

K&R

[ElsewheresDaughter]

41. kudos to Thatcher aides for having good sense

[sofa king]

44. Good. Fury learns no lessons.

It pleases me to see that the Republican Party is finally beginning to resemble the suckers they once merely manipulated. Now they're like a chocolate and peanut butter cup, with a thin, melting shell of evil trying desperately to contain an oozing mass of stupid inside.

[tigereye]

105. nice description!

[teenagebambam]

191. You win. Can I steal this?

[sofa king]

199. Certainly!

If it plays in Poughkeepsie, play it.

[BadgerKid]

46. Translation: RW irked not being able to control the message

beyond US borders.

I'm glad there's still someone (outside of present company) who'll smack down these neocons.

[Cass]

49. Palin is trying to use an old, sick woman for her own political gain and that is disgraceful.

It is well known that Thatcher is suffering with dementia. Her aides absolutely did the right thing shielding her from a slimy political opportunist.

[Politicub]

50. Delicious!

:rofl:

[plumbob]

52. So now all the Reagan-Thatcher fans hate them? They were joined at the hip in the 80s.

Too funny! Saint Ronnie catches a black eye from his nutty worshipers!

[Ready4Change]

53. Wah.

Wah! The Iron Lady won't act as window dressing for my political whims! Wahhh! :cry:

Who's part of the culture of entitlement now? Who thinks, just because they ran for VICE president (without winning, btw), that people should be bowing and scraping before them? Who's wittle feewings are hurt because some foreigner isn't buying into their delusions of grandeur?

Limbaugh, Palin, much of the cadre who have subverted the Tea party: Nothing but spoiled brats and cry babies. Time for them to realize the rest of the world is dealing with important issues. Outside of the mesmerized US media, no one wants to stroke the egos of these self proclaimed 'rugged individuals' anymore.

Boo fricken hoo.

[Scottybeamer70]

54. ......on her way to Sudan.....

probably thinks she is going shopping for a new sedan!

[tigereye]

106. this thread is the best!

:rofl:

[liberalhistorian]

177. I can just hear her now.

"They named a country after a car? Why, bless their little igloos, these here African people are coming along farther than I'd thought, you betcha!"

[abelenkpe]

55. Love it. nt

[yellowcanine]

56. I would think that Maggie would want to meet Sarah just to her her version of Paul Revere's Ride.

Isn't Mrs. Thatcher interested in history?:rofl:

[Beartracks]

57. What would REALLY disgrace the Iron Lady?

To quote: "that a stateswoman like Thatcher, in advanced dementia, would be used by such a crackpot is simply unseemly."

And by the way, I only keep reading how GOPers are (feigning) outrage that Thatcher's people would CALL Palin nuts, but haven't read anywhere that they disagree with the basic assertion. Hmmm...

=========================

[Lasher]

58. Presumptuous Half Governor Palin Annoys Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

And me.

[JAnthony]

59. Oh fuck, the right wing is offended!!! Let's bow to their wishes, and

make sure their insanity is respected!

Too f*n bad for those Sarah fans........as soon as they wake up to reality the better!

[primavera]

60. As if Caribou Barbie could even have FOUND England...

[guitar man]

62. Hey , UK DUers

What's a nice place over there that delivers gift baskets? Anybody that manages to infuriate our entire right wing certainly deserves something for it. :D

[nolabear]

63. Remember that great feeling when Obama was elected

that at last (and never mind what he has or hasn't accomplished) we looked like reasonable human beings in the eyes of the rest of the world?

I give you...Sarah Palin 2012.

[Thumper79]

64. This is hilarious!

It's fun to watch Limbabble to get his panties in a wad. Margaret Thatcher describes Palin perfectly....SHE'S NUTS.:puke:

[tblue37]

120. Thatcher has dementia. She didn't describe Palin--one of her aides did. nt

[tblue37]

121. Self-delete. Accidental dupe. nt

[BobTheSubgenius]

65. Top Palin aide quoted as saying "This is ridiculous...."

"Sarah's presence embiggens us all."

[defendandprotect]

67. Alaska poised to release Palin emails

Alaska poised to release Palin emails

By BECKY BOHRER, Associated Press Becky Bohrer, Associated Press – 18 mins ago
JUNEAU, Alaska – The state of Alaska on Friday will release thousands of Sarah Palin's emails from her first two years as governor, a disclosure that has taken on national prominence as she flirts with a run for the presidency.

The emails were first requested during the 2008 White House race by citizens and news organizations, including The Associated Press, as they vetted a vice presidential nominee whose political experience included less than one term as governor of Alaska and a term as mayor of the small town of Wasilla. The nearly three-year delay has been attributed largely to the sheer volume of the release and the flood of requests.

Alaska is releasing the more than 24,000 pages of emails in paper form only and asking news organizations to pick up several boxes worth of documents in Alaska's capital city, accessible by only air or water. Reporters from several news organizations have already begun arriving in Juneau and are making various plans to disseminate the emails to the public.

Palin told Fox News Sunday that "every rock" that could have been kicked over to uncover things in her family has been. But she also said "a lot of those emails obviously weren't meant for public consumption" and that she expected people might seek to take some of the messages "out of context."




http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_el_ge/us_palin_emails

[MadMaddie]

75. She was serving in a public position and has the nerve to say

<snip>
But she also said "a lot of those emails obviously weren't meant for public consumption" and that she expected people might seek to take some of the messages "out of context."
<snip>

I think the emails are going to show what a truely vindictive and childish person she is.....I can't wait for the whine to begin!!!:popcorn:

[defendandprotect]

91. If you read further in the link her lawyers looked at the stuff ....

and seemingly nothing was excluded or redacted --

so we may be hoping in vein for some smoking gun that would us permanent

relief from her!!



:evilgrin:

[harvey007]

70. Sarah Palin is bloody nuts, actually

:dunce:

[ailsagirl]

72. LOLOLOLOL!!

:rofl:
That dimwit Palin is, truly, a piece of work. Andrew Sullivan is so right on:

"As usual, the tired old bigoted comedian Rush Limbaugh took offense that anyone could call Sarah Palin "nuts," even though she is quite obviously a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and her grip on reality is, shall we say, tenuous. And as usual, Limbaugh blamed it on the left, i.e. the Guardian's Wintour/Watt blog. What he doesn't understand is that Palin's nutsiness is not a partisan matter in Britain, or anywhere else in the world. It is an obvious truth marveled at by all. Palin's emergence as a serious figure in American politics has made the country a laughing stock across the world. The idea that a stateswoman like Thatcher, in advanced dementia, would be used by such a crackpot is simply unseemly."

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/06/limbaugh-palin-and-the-left.html

[onager]

77. Palin replies: "This is not over!"

"Was it over when the Germans invaded the Falkland Islands?"

Loved this from the article: La Donna Hale Curzon, the host of Sarah Palin Radio, accused the Thatcher circle of disgracing the former prime minister. "Margaret Thatcher would never call a fellow Conservative, let alone Gov Palin 'nuts'," Hale Curzon tweeted. "Thatcher's handlers have disgraced the Iron Lady."

Unless Palin has changed her citizenship lately, she's nowhere near a British big-C Conservative. She's an American far-right Republican. Big difference.

For one...well, two...things: in 1968 Thatcher voted to legalize both abortion and homosexuality in the UK.

[snagglepuss]

83. Did Palin really say that?

[Brother Buzz]

97. Forget it, he's rolling.

[SaveAmerica]

78. This is what happens when you build your own reality, they're shocked

shocked I tell you!

[devilgrrl]

79. I'm not sure what's more disturbing. Sarah Palin or people here praising Margaret Thatcher.

:puke:

[kestrel91316]

116. If I had to choose between them for president, Lady Thatcher

IN HER CURRENT MENTAL STATE would get my vote.

[leftynyc]

149. Lady Thatcher

may have been a warmonger and lean to the right. She also voted to legalize abortion and homosexuality (and this was in 1968 if I'm remembering correctly)- little sarah has a lot of nerve thinking she's in the same league.

[Gregorian]

80. It is so odd that we would be hearing the truth from Thatcher of all places.

How messed up is this country's psyche that hardly no one but the Rude Pundit and Jon Stewart are calling out this ignoramus? What a dingbat. And to think we'd give her enough time of day that she has even a twinkling of a chance of making decisions that could affect every American.

Someone needs to do a parody of this clown. Something along the lines of how she'd address the nation on the eve of some war she has declared. I could see her pointing at Venezuela when talking about troops in Kirkuk.

OK, you can die now Margaret.

http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/

[dogmoma56]

81. no tea with the Real Queen Bee.

[rpannier]

82. I'm with Thatcher's ally

Never thought I'd say something like that -- But I am

[Kurmudgeon]

85. Reagan cuts in funding for mental health services have came full circle.

[snappyturtle]

86. Yeah! Margaret! Thank you, thank you!! nt

[theaocp]

87. Guess what I'm doing right now?

That's right ... not caring wtf outrages anyone who claims to be reichwing. Fuck. all. of. them.

[ProgressiveATL]

88. Hahahahahaha

:toast: Best headline of the day. Thank you so much.

[Weird Liberal Head]

89. EPIC LOL

;)

[certainot]

90. those brits will feel the wrath of the limbaugh dittohead teabagger army, complete w/death threats

[backscatter712]

92. Sarah's too crazy for Margaret Thatcher?

MARGARET THATCHER?!?!

That's fucking impressive!

[LeftishBrit]

133. Yes, that's quite an achievement in the Nutter Stakes!

[Happyhippychick]

94. I love the smell of a Republican meltdown in the morning!

[MikeMc]

95. Nobody's classier than Brit nazis. NT

[craigmatic]

96. Palin is too extreme for thatcher and thatcher took milk from little kids.

[tigereye]

100. well, she is nuts! (but Maggie was nuts too!)

:rofl: Like Palin was ever in the same league.

[pnorman]

107. A hard-liner conservative in England,

would be somwhat to the Left of an Eisenhower Republican here.

[nxylas]

128. Not quite true

Thatcher was a right-wing as any US Republican. However, that was then, and the electorate has largely rejected that sort of thinking now, which is why David Cameron had to pose as a kinder, gentler sort of Tory in order to get elected (after which his true colours soon showed).

[LeftishBrit]

140. Not quite..

Thatcher was a very close ally of Reagan, and was very much a radical right-winger in the sense of wanting to actively abolish existing progressive measures, rather than just resisting new ones.

Tories are a wide spectrum and range from those who are more like moderate Democrats to all too many who are very much like right-wing Republicans economically and socially, though usually without the RW religious fervour (but some even have that) and without the obsession with guns and physical aggression.

Maggie was very right-wing economically and in her general vision for society. I consider her to have been HUGELY destructive to Britain. It is fortunate that we had a welfare state already in existence, so that even she could not demolish/prevent it altogether, even though she caused major damage to it. She also caused major damage to our industrial base, creating massive unemployment at the time, and increasing our dependence on the banking and financial sectors for the future, with results now all too obvious.

However, her IQ was much higher than Palin's (I say 'was', as she is now cognitively impaired after a series of small strokes - still may be more compos mentis than Palin, however!) She graduated in a science subject from Oxford at a time when this was *very* unusual for women, especially those who like her did not come from wealthy backgrounds - so she undoubtedly had a brain, even if she used it in completely the wrong way. And, again unlike Palin, she was very hard-working and anything but a quitter.

[onager]

183. Thanks! I hoped we would get your take on this.

IIRC, Thatcher was one of the first politicians to support global-warming theory. She studied it at Oxford.

[Dutchmaster]

108. Moments like this . . .

. . . make me glad Palin is still on the national radar. Sooooooooooo entertaining lol.

[Doughboy71]

109. Who cares Sarah?

Shouldn't they respect the fact Lady Thatcher is in failing health and is up there in years and leave it at that? Palin doesn't represent the U.S. in any official capacity so there is no need to impose just because Sarah wants some tea and crumpets.

[Guilded Lilly]

110. I don't think any Brits will be losing sleep over this.

[southernyankeebelle]

111. Way to go Iron Lady. Even while you don't really know what is going on around you your people

are smart enough to see that the quitter is trying to use you for a photo/video shot just like her trip to the east coast. Your right she is nuts and an idiot.

[Nossida]

112. Love the 'Clampetts' reference.

Bloody Good Show M8's. Touche'
Without doubt the most fitting
analogy. Bravo!! I hope to
hear it repeated in the Press,
Hysterical!!!

[Hugabear]

114. Palin's first act as President: declare war on Britain, burn down Buckingham Palace

War of 2012 - Payback for 200 years ago!

[kestrel91316]

115. England better pray she doesn't get elected. I suspect her capable of

extremely vindictive behavior when she doesn't get her way.

And she'll have her finger on the red button.

[Nihil]

176. It's OK: there's a secret defence plan ...

A sleeper agent in the White House will be instructed to
turn the map of the world around by 90 degrees when she's
not looking!

:P

[LetTimmySmoke]

117. I read the freeper thread on this a couple days ago.

The posts ranged from denial (Liberal media is making this all up!) to anger (Fuck the UK and all the brown people there!) to acceptance (This doesn't matter anyway, "Saint Sarah" will become president anyway and lead us to a land of rainbows and honey!)

Kind of like the stages of grief, but with a twist of retard.

[Safetykitten]

122. US rightwing learns dif beteween nuts amd NUTS.

[slay]

123. Pretty bad when even Thatcher won't see Palin

not that i blame her - Palin is a joke, and the joke is on all of her dumbass followers. :rofl:

[LTR]

124. WAIT A MINUTE!!! There's a Sarah Palin RADIO???

:wtf:

Noticed that in the article.

http://www.sarahpalinradio.com/

Good lord! This country IS fucked!

As if Sarahdippity really needs 24/7 ass-kissing! Doesn't she get enough of that from the media?

[deacon_sephiroth]

125. how can this be?

How can ANYONE not want to meet with Sarah Palin? I mean she's SO important! Look at all she's accomplished?................anyone?..................nothing?...... ok

[Wabbajack_]

127. Freepers really think

That WE (and the "msm") are "afraid" of Palin. They honestly believe it.

The smart ones who laugh at that notion are getting banned. What a bunch of morons. Let's go Sarah woo!!

It will break their little hearts when the witch doesn't run.

[The Wizard]

129. It's not that Sarah isn't playing with a full deck

She's got too many cards and an extra oar in the water, and more marbles than she can manage.

[tavalon]

131. Oh, dear!

Call the Waaaahmbulance.

[SpiralHawk]

134. Draft Dodger Limbaugh has his diaper in a twist because...

...he and the other RepubliFascists can't handle the truth about Sarah Pale Horse (R).

[Hubert Flottz]

137. Rush didn't factor in the fact that...

the runner up never gets the respect a real Queen gets.

And Sarah is not exactly another Ian Anderson...she's already quit her day job, but I don't think she'll ever be a great flautist or flutist.

[spicegal]

135. Good for Lady Thatcher. The vast majority of people

living in the civilized world think she's nuts, and people who choose to give her the time of day ARE belittling themselves. She doesn't have a strong following in America, although you'd never know it by her overblown ego and grandiosity. Her only value to society is that she provides excellent fodder for late night comics.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

139. The Right Wing is infuriated? How can you tell?

The wingers I know seem to be perpetually infuriated. I think they thrive on infuriation. Me, I prefer coffee.

:hi:

[GoCubsGo]

143. You beat me to it.

Imagine if they took all the energy they put into that misplaced outrage, and put it toward helping out people who are suffering. I can't believe that this petty bullshit is what they spend their time worrying about. They're upset because some senile, old lady doesn't want to visit with the big fish in their very small pond? Are they effing kidding???

[orbitalman]

141. Good - good - good ! n/t

[democracy _ idyllic]

142. thatcher...

Wow, even the medically demented Thatcher can recognize a true nut job. Probably the only sane thing Mags has done is to avoid Palin.

[leftynyc]

145. I'm reading the comments

from the Guardian article and this one made me laugh out loud:

Sarah Palin is bright, fresh voice in American politics. She is a modern woman with a grasp of the down-to-earth concerns of typical Americans. She would make a wonderful candidate, and the Republican Party should rally behind her as their 2012 Presidential nominee.

(the above paid campaign message has been brought to you by the Committee to Re-elect President Obama)

[Amaril]

146. When will the TP get it thru their thick skulls.......

.....that the ONLY people who think Palin is relevant in ANY way is them? Gad, the whole lot of them are embarassing.

[dotymed]

147. Even though Thatcher is Reaganite

(A derogatory term IMO) even she (and "her people") recognize, as does most of the world, that Palin is nothing but an ignorant, greedy attention seeker. She will say or do anything for a buck.

When is this sleaze-ball's 15 minutes over?

Only in post-Fairness Doctrine America can a loon like this have even a little "political influence."

[Javaman]

148. Margaret Thatcher by Notsensibles

I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love ...with Maggie T
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love ...with Maggie T

Oh Margaret Thatcher is so sexy
She's the girl for you and me
I go red when she's on the telly
'Cos I think she fancies me

I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love ...with Maggie T
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher Thatcher
I'm in love a' love a' love a' Margaret Thatcher Thatcher
I'm in love with Maggie T

Oh Margaret Thatcher is so sexy
She's the girl for you and me
I go red when she's on the telly
'Cos I think she fancies me

I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love ...with Maggie T
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love ...with Maggie T

I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love ...with Maggie T
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher
I'm in love ...with Maggie T

[OwnedByFerrets]

150. This is fantastic. Take your binkie and go home

[pangaia]

151. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and more HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!

[connecticut yankee]

152. Tally-Ho, Pip Pip and all that sort of rot.

I always knew there was something I liked about Dame Margaret.

[Roy Rolling]

153. It is a disgrace and insult...

to all those people who are truly nuts to be lumped in with Sarah Palin. The mentally ill among us have a right to be offended by having the undeserved curse of a medical condition they suffer from being compared with the voluntary actions of a calculated grifter. :banghead:

[Urban Prairie]

154. "Margaret Thatcher would in no way allow an aide to refer to anybody, Sarah Palin notwithstanding"

as 'nuts'."

Thatcher and Reagan's political, social and fiscal legacies have proved toxic to the middle classes in both the US and the UK. Scarah just obviously wants to use her in a photo op for the purposes of furthering her own personal and political agenda. Anything that Thatcher said to her that was even barely coherent would be construed and spun by her and her teabagger supporters to make it appear that Thatcher fully and completely supports Palin. She would dig up "Saint Ronnies" corpse itself, if she believed that she could derive some type of monetary and political benefit from being photographed with it, and if she could get away with doing it,IMO.

[LibertyLover]

156. My question is -

now that a visit with Lady Thatcher has been declined, will Sarah the Pee ask to meet with the Queen? I'd love to know what Her Majesty's view of former Gov. Palin is - Liz has dealt with a number of famous statesmen over the years, like Churchill, and she keeps up with the news. Officially she may not have a position, but I understand that unofficially the Queen most certainly does - her take on Sarah would be priceless. Perhaps someday we will. Until then, have fun stormin' the castle Sarah!

[hifiguy]

190. The only use that the Queen would have for Palin

is as a chambermaid in one of the Windsor family castles. Maybe Tawd could be an assistant gamekeeper or something.

[ChicagoRonin]

157. Yankee Doodle went to London . . .

[JCMach1]

160. Old and Senile as she is, Thatcher is still smarter than Palin will ever be!

[SemperEadem]

161. alas! what are they going to do? They have to just

get down and suck it. All the tantruming in the world on the part of the retch-wing isn't going to make them do a goddamn thing. spalin is base-born. Were I Baroness Thatcher, I wouldn't grant her an audience, either. Fuckin' idiot.

[fascisthunter]

162. Get yer Popcorn HERE!

:popcorn:

US right wingers: the World thinks you are :crazy:

[DirkGently]

163. It's like a virtual snub from Lord Reagan as well, given he & Mme. Thatcher were joined at the hip.

[Blue Owl]

169. delicious

Nothing quite like a royal "fuck you" to Bible Spice!

[lovuian]

175. Magaret Thatcher knows that Sarah Palin won't fly

in Europe they are too smart
only dumshit Americans give her television time

[olegramps]

181. Isn't it ironic that both the Gipper and Iron Land both succumbed to mental deterioration?

[AllyCat]

178. Clearly they have forgotten their unequivocal love of Maggie T.

But then, we always love a good celebrity.

[NikRik]

179. If anyone is snub worthy its Sarah !!!

;-)

[NikRik]

180. If anyone is snub worthy its Sarah !!!

;-)

[Deep13]

182. No fan of Thatcher, but at least she was a real world leader and not a publicity whore. nt

[Roy Rolling]

184. history re-write

Palin's team is busy saying they weren't going to visit Thatcher anyway. After planning a week of driving the bus across the Atlantic Ocean they changed their mind.

[Jester Messiah]

186. Thatcher to Palin: Don't believe your own hype. [nt]

[Stevenmarc]

188. They can have Palin pop out of Prince Philips 90th birthday cake

Then the Prince can make one of his notoriously inappropriate comments

[Zambero]

189. Why don't they just make Thatcher the "new Pelosi"?

With a hissy fit reaction of this magnitude, the right wing needs to take a further drastic step, lest other conservatives and their staffs dare to waver from orthodoxy. "The Margaret Thatcher Democrat party along with Margaret Thatcher liberal candidate (insert name) seeks to require mothers to murder their babies and replace our U.S. Constitution with radical Islamic Sharia Law, BLAH, BLAH..."

[OswegoAtheist]

194. Is the BNP still around?

I think that wretched hive of scum and villainy is more in tune to Sister Sarah's ideology.

Oswego "Tory! Tory! Tory!" Atheist

[Jeneral2885]

195. Actually i don't mind

Both are destructive--one rested on ultra-free market ideas the other on stupidity are fame.

[LaPera]

196. Even the British right-wing know Palin is NUTS-Only ignorant uneducated uninformed republican HICKS

think she knows what the fuck she's talking about ant they are too fucking dumb to know shes using them just to make millions of bucks as these idiotic republican tea-baggers actually believe she is running for president - The ONLy thing the lying sack of shit Palin is running for is the money!

PALIN IS NUTS!

[boycottfaux]

197. BOO HOO

What would 2-syllable "crackpot" discuss with Mrs.
Thatcher anyway?

[Kurovski]

200. The Iron Murderess is correct.

HAHAHAHAAA!