Friday, November 09, 2007

Her Thighness is no Margaret Thatcher

Peggy Noonan has an excellent Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal:


Margaret Thatcher would no more have identified herself as a woman, or claimed special pleading that she was a mere frail girl, or asked you to sympathize with her because of her sex, than she would have called up the Kremlin and asked how quickly she could surrender.
She represented a movement. She was its head. She was great figure, a person in history, and she was a woman. She was in it for serious reasons, not to advance the claims of a gender but to reclaim for England its economic freedom, and return its political culture to common sense. Her rise wasn't symbolic but actual.

I wonder what Herself plans to do if she is elected president and some foreign thug like Ahmadinejad, Chavez, or Castro fails to bow to Her feminine sensitivities.

Margaret Thatcher would not have batted an eye, had her opponents in her own party ganged up on her like the Democrats did on the PIAPS in the recent debate. She simply would have proceeded to kick their asses.

Look back at the last five men who have been president. George W. Bush has had the mental toughness to withstand the searing criticism that every president must take. So did Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. Whoever is president must be figuratively bulletproof, and sometime literally.

On the other hand, George Bush Sr. did not have that mental toughness. He allowed the difficulties of the office to get to him. Likewise Jimmah Carter. He couldn't handle it. Is it any surprise that Bush Sr. and Carter were one-term presidents whereas Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Bush Jr. were re-elected?

Hillary does not possess the fortitude to be president. Certainly she knows how to dish it out. Consequently, some simple-minded people are fooled into thinking she is tough. But like most bullies, Herself can only play offense. She can't take it when someone gives her any trouble. For that reason and many others, she is not qualified to be president.

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