She was opposed by the brain dead and the brainwashed.

She fought a system that in the name of social justice had for decades created misery and had left the country in despair and hopelessness.

She had to overcome those that rewrite history and reinvent reality in order to satisfy their ideological urges. Her legacy still wages that war against those very same types.

She was a tower of strength that brought back respect to her country.

She made the world a better place and many millions of every class benefited from the opportunity her policies created.

She had Reagan's back, as Reagan now has ours with the missile defense system currently deployed around Korea. What a vastly different world we would live in had we not had these two giants.

One can only hope the world has not seen the last of her kind.

Using the death of an 87-year-old woman ravaged by dementia to satisfy holding a perverse political fetish is grotesque.

Maggie Thatcher should be allowed to rest in peace, free from obtuse right wingers polluting her memory with their own far right views, as per this initial post, and celebrations of her death from those who opposed her politics.

RIP Maggie.

Initial post, Mike!

Your link was pitch perfect. It was a great quote from an excellent speaker.

Ronald Reagan once referred to Thatcher as 'the best man in England.'


Phil

RIP Maggie -

It's definitely the end of an era, regardless of one's political views....  You've GOT to respect a woman with that much cojones...

As a follow-up to Phil's post - Maggie once called Reagan "the second most important man in my life."  

Speaking as one of the braindead or the brainwashed -- one in my position can never really be sure which -- may the lady rest in peace.

Hmm, a controversial figure, not least to an Irishman.

May she rust in peace.

My particular views are nowhere near far right, as any sane and sober analysis would conclude, not that I am expecting one.

The history of the 20th century is clear that collectivism leads not only to a severe lessening of individual liberty but a drastic increase in general suffering. England in 1979 was proof of that, and to forget this is as dangerous as to ignore the lessons of the 1930s, or alternatively of the folly of the laissey faire approach of the 19th century. Maggie alone succeeded against the corrupt collectivism which had long infected the nation's bloodstream.

Reagan's comment was said with total affection. He had a way of capturing the essence.

And yes, Colonel, she was controversial and far from perfect. She was deservedly brought down by the poll tax stuff. Overall she made the world a better place, just as those who may seem to have noble intentions can make it a far worse one, especially when they fail to learn history's easy lessons.