As predicted Sarah Palin's ghostwriters have hammered out an article to get her name mentioned alongside Margaret Thatchers and attract a little reflected attention to feed her addiction. Update!

I had predicted that this would show up on Breitbart's defunct site or on her Facebook page, but instead it was posted over at the National Review.

Not really a step up I know.

I am not going to bother going through it point by point, since a LOT of it is simply the result of research done by her team of consul....I'm sorry I meant "salaried employees," and it is designed to deify Baroness Thatcher before Palin's team carefully inserts some language comparing them, thereby suggesting that Palin is the natural successor to Thatcher and greedily lay claim to the mantle of "most famous female conservative on the planet."

And THAT part can be found right here: 

She was at heart a populist taking on the Conservative party’s old guard, who disdainfully referred to her as “That Woman.” The disdain was mutual. She referred to them as “the not so grand grandees.” As Thatcher later said, “It didn’t matter what they called me as long as I got the job done. I mean, to me they were ‘Those Grandees.’ They just don’t know what life is like. They haven’t been through it. And eventually if they didn’t help our cause, they had to go. But it didn’t bother me too much that they were patronizing like that. Frankly, the people, who are the true gentlemen, deal with others for what they are, not who their father was. Let’s face it: Maybe it took ‘That Woman’ to get things done, and the real reason why they said it was because they knew they just hadn’t got it within them to see things through.” 

In taking on “Those Grandees,” she wasn’t afraid of having strong opinions and fighting for them — something the establishment often found distasteful (See "Old Boys Club). British ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons recalled a conversation about this: “She said, ‘You know, Tony, I’m very proud that I don’t belong to your class.’ I said, ‘Prime Minister, what class do you think I belong to?’ She said, ‘I’m talking of course about upper-middle-class intellectuals who see everybody else’s point of view and have none of their own.’” And, of course, like all conservatives and trailblazers, she had to endure more than her share of vicious media attacks. Sir Archie Hamilton once recounted how he asked Thatcher whether she read the daily newspapers. “‘Oh no!’ she replied, ‘They make such hurtful and damaging remarks about me and my family, that if I ever read the papers every day, I could never get on with the job I am here to do.’” (What? Thatcher did not read newspapers either?) I know exactly what she meant. And as she said, “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

OMGD! The comparisons could not be more uncanny. 

Like Palin, Thatcher was a female. Take that Lamestream media!

Like Palin, Thatcher had to stand up against the "Old Boys Club." Take that Alaska who does not like me anymore!

And like Palin, Thatcher did not read newspapers.Take that Katie Couric, you bitch!

So there you have it, Sarah Palin is the living embodiment of the Iron Lady. Only SHE is an Iron Lady with a "still" spine.

Which is better....right?

By the way according to Ann Coulter at one time Thatcher actually DID want to meet with Sarah Palin. But not to schmooze, but instead to "teach her" to "talk properly and speak like a lady."

Hah! Oh this just turned into my favorite bit of Sarah Palin/Margaret Thatcher trivia!

Update: According to Wikipedia Thatcher's Dementia was  first revealed in 2005, which means she probably suffered from it much earlier, and that leaves substantial doubt as to Coulter's claim.

Oooh, Ann is going to get a ton of misspelled e-mails now!