RIP Thatcher

England may be more ambivalent, but Freepers love Margaret Thatcher. She has died, so Freepers mourn. For America more than for her, it seems:

dead went total fanboy:

I have a signed copy of Margaret Thatcher's "The Downing Street Years." The only book signing event I've ever gone to. It was in NYC and the line was enormous.

When I finally got to her table, she very carefully signed her name on the title page (no illegible scrawl, but a perfectly executed signature) slid the book towards me, looked up and said in that great Maggie voice, "Thank you, very much!"

"No, thank you. For everything." was my response.

She nodded, acknowledging that I was talking about more than the signature.

Washi preemptively hates Obama's absence:

What do you want to bet that Obama will show his contempt and disrespect by not attending her funeral?

Instead, he will send some lower-level functionary, like Biden.

who knows what evil? also rages about Obama's hypothetical appearance:

Not a peep from Mr. Asshole Idiot as far as I can tell.

The Kenyan is not worthy of speaking her name...

Jakarta ex-pat takes things a bit Freudian:

Margaret Thatcher was the biggest feminine influence on my life and surroundings bar my mother.

Everything reminds CatherineofAragon of libs:

This saddens me so much. I was thinking this morning how every single thing on the news signals that the country is moving hard left, very fast...and now this, the passing of one of the last great conservative stalwarts.

who knows what evil? is one of many who uses this as an excuse to re-eulogize Reagain:

G-d is calling all the greats home before we spiral into the pit for the last time. Give our regards to President Reagan, Madame Thatcher.

Jemian thinks England has an Empire:

My condolences to her family and citizens of the British Empire. She was a great lady.

9YearLurker rages that the press didn't mention how she broke the unions:

What a horridly written and biased obituary: the only reference to her impact on the UK and its economy is to report that unemployment quickly doubled once she began privatization?

kidd - Thatcher fought sexism AND disco-hedonism!

She was a GREAT leader.

She convinced this former chauvinist that women can be great leaders when they stick to conservative principles. (Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, etc are other examples).

The mid-to-late 70s were a disaster. Carter was in office. Oil embargos. Iran went from ally to enemy. The Soviet Union flexed its muscles everywhere. Third-world despots felt empowered to take charge, including Argentina. America was transitioning from 60s-type hippies to disco-hedonism. Nobody respected government.

Then the Reagan-Thacher-JPII juggernaut turned things around.

SMARTY knows England nearly died before Thatcher:

Britain was certainly in the toilet whem Maggie came along.

Brits can call themselves VERY lucky that Maggie came along, was who she was and did what she did.

elhombrelibre remembers the good days of the Cold War:

I feel fortunate to have been alive while Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher were standing up to evil in this world. They set an excellent example of principled leadership. It’s a shocking contrast to today’s fixation Obama has with turning the USA into a gay-obssessed, gun-grabbing, socialist nanny state.

PGR88's personal history approves:

Time proved everything Thatcher did as CORRECT. God bless her for standing firm and having true conservative principles.

weston knows even a picture of Reagan is all it takes to convert libs into Republicans:

Watch the lame stream media contort themselves like pretzels to avoid pictures of her with Reagan or any mention of the good this amazing couple accomplished.

Any mention or pics of Reagan serve to remind people of what a real leader looks like. Can’t have their idol and wuss-in-chief looking bad by comparison...