Required: One Sniper

[stressederic]

Sarah Palin plans trip to UK to meet 'political heroine' Margaret Thatcher

No date has been set for the meeting but they share a love of tax cutting and hostility towards organised labour

 

Ed Pilkington, New York guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 June 2010 22.56 BST Article history

 

Sarah Palin at the Showdown in Searchlight Tea Party rally, in Searchlight, Nevada this March. Photograph: Rex Features

 

Sarah Palin, the once obscure governor from Alaska who is shaking up rightwing US politics, is promising to honour the woman she calls the Iron Lady by visiting Britain to see Margaret Thatcher.

 

Today Palin told her 1,630,386 Facebook fans that she was in discussions about meeting the baroness. In typically convoluted Palin language, she said she had received an invitation for a visit to London that "included the offer of arranging a meeting" with Thatcher.

 

The post came a day after the Mail on Sunday reported that Palin herself had made the approach, with her people contacting Thatcher's office to ask for an audience. The Mail said Thatcher had agreed to see her, though no date has been specified.

 

At face value they have little in common. Thatcher, 84, was a grocer's daughter from Grantham in Lincolnshire; Palin, 46, was born to a science teacher and school secretary in Sandpoint, Idaho. Thatcher cultivated a reputation for steely determination; Palin is better known for her hockey-mom ways and winning smile. Thatcher did not suffer fools gladly; Palin has struggled not to play the fool.

 

But they share a love of tax cutting and hostility towards organised labour, and Palin in her Facebook message called Thatcher "one of my political heroines" and role models. She said the elder woman had created a blueprint for "overcoming the odds and challenges of the status quo".

 

She also highlighted Thatcher's close friendship with Ronald Reagan, whose mantle Palin has sought to inherit in her ongoing bid to win over rightwing Republican support perhaps for a putative run on the White House in 2012 and certainly for lavish financial gain.

 

Guardian

 

Get into positon and then enjoy yourself.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

This post is not viewable to guests.

You can sign in to your account at the login page here

If you do not have an account then you can register here

[fyds]

This post is not viewable to guests.

You can sign in to your account at the login page here

If you do not have an account then you can register here

[smithdown]

This post is not viewable to guests.

You can sign in to your account at the login page here

If you do not have an account then you can register here

[fyds]

This post is not viewable to guests.

You can sign in to your account at the login page here

If you do not have an account then you can register here

[PhilM]

This post is not viewable to guests.

You can sign in to your account at the login page here

If you do not have an account then you can register here