Comments on: John O’Sullivan, Crazy Conservative; or, Is Palin Really Like Thatcher? http://themoderatevoice.com/25207/john-osullivan-crazy-conservative-or-is-palin-really-like-thatcher/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 30 May 2012 16:14:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: EEllis http://themoderatevoice.com/25207/john-osullivan-crazy-conservative-or-is-palin-really-like-thatcher/comment-page-1/#comment-167820 EEllis Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:38:11 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25207/john-osullivan-crazy-conservative-or-is-palin-really-like-thatcher/#comment-167820 You of course base this on your extensive personal contact with her right? In depth background and analysis? No, what then? Oh I see you base it on partisan reports. Of course that must be the most accurate way to form an oppinion. The fact that before her inclusion in the presidential campaign she had an extremely high approval rating in her home State must mean that the voters in Alaska are idiots without your keen powers of analysis. Truth is we don't know her and it will take a while before we can if we ever do. What we know is what the two campaigns put out, not what is true. Buying the hype on either side is pretty stupid. You of course base this on your extensive personal contact with her right? In depth background and analysis? No, what then? Oh I see you base it on partisan reports. Of course that must be the most accurate way to form an oppinion. The fact that before her inclusion in the presidential campaign she had an extremely high approval rating in her home State must mean that the voters in Alaska are idiots without your keen powers of analysis. Truth is we don't know her and it will take a while before we can if we ever do. What we know is what the two campaigns put out, not what is true. Buying the hype on either side is pretty stupid.

]]> By: Welshman http://themoderatevoice.com/25207/john-osullivan-crazy-conservative-or-is-palin-really-like-thatcher/comment-page-1/#comment-167788 Welshman Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:04:33 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25207/john-osullivan-crazy-conservative-or-is-palin-really-like-thatcher/#comment-167788 Hmm. I think you may be near the truth.<br><br>I remember having lunch with two Tory MPs when they started to exchange comments, to my surprise and mild disbelief, about the sheer sexuality that exuded from Margaret Thatcher. "As she enters the House, you can feel the frisson spread across both back benches as she walks in". As so often with British Conservatives, I doubted their judgement but not their sincerity.<br><br>Could it be that this is the real unexpressed sentiment being felt by O'Sullivan when personally finding similarities between Thatcher and Palin? No, it can't be. I am being churlish. Hmm. I think you may be near the truth.

I remember having lunch with two Tory MPs when they started to exchange comments, to my surprise and mild disbelief, about the sheer sexuality that exuded from Margaret Thatcher. “As she enters the House, you can feel the frisson spread across both back benches as she walks in”. As so often with British Conservatives, I doubted their judgement but not their sincerity.

Could it be that this is the real unexpressed sentiment being felt by O'Sullivan when personally finding similarities between Thatcher and Palin? No, it can't be. I am being churlish.

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