Where Is Our Iron Lady? | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: Alicia Colon explains perfect politician embodied in the female form in this post, which was originally published in The Irish Examiner.

    Although Meryl Streep
Margaret Thatcher: Above.
Lady Thatcher was a woman of honor, courage, high principled who endured ridicule and hatred for saving the British Empire. Even at her death, she is being disrespected by the malcontents of the British underclass who resented her for pulling the rug out from these parasites, who leeched off the taxpaying citizens, to save her country's economy.   - Alicia Colon
looked remarkably like Margaret Thatcher in the film "Iron Lady," I found that much too much of the film portrayed her in her decline suffering from dementia. This is typical of how Hollywood depicts conservatives; reducing their best attributes while highlighting the negative aspects of their lives. Lady Thatcher was the epitome of a strong, passionate leader who loved her country and did what she could to save it. "I can't bear Britain in decline, I just can't," she once said in an interview and it is this national passion that is sorely missing from most American politicians.

    Liberals have the audacity to compare Hillary Clinton with Margaret Thatcher and have even dubbed her the American Iron Lady but I can't think they have anything in common other than gender. I heard Mrs. Thatcher speak at a Conservative Women for America convention several years ago in Washington, D.C. After that CWFA convention, I wrote: "The 'Iron Lady' gave her defense ministers total support during the Falkland Islands crisis in 1982. She declared they had access to whatever resources the nation had and what it didn't have, she would somehow get. This is the kind of support our Army Rangers should have received before getting killed and dragged through the streets of Somalia after waiting in vain for backup."

    President Clinton was in the White House during that 'Black Hawk Down' tragedy and I wonder how much influence the 'co-president' Mrs. Clinton had in denying our Rangers the support they needed.

    Margaret Thatcher nee Roberts became England's first Prime Minister on her own reputation and political achievements not because she was some popular president's wife as Clinton is. When Hillary Clinton ran for senator of my state I researched her background to confirm if she was really the smartest woman in the world as she was being touted in the media by campaign promoters.

    Hillary Clinton's true character surfaced upon this research which completely belied what her campaign was selling. But they show that the pattern of lies, deceit, fabrications and unethical behavior was established long ago. Not many Americans even know about her misadventures with the Rose law firm and Madison Guaranty Bank nor have they heard of her fortuitous and dubious cattle futures, Travelgate and Whitewater and other overlooked scandals involving the woman who may still ask us to make her president of the United States.

    As far back as the Watergate hearings in 1972, Hillary Rodham's legal acumen was judged far less than perfect. Jerry Zeifman, general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee and a longtime Democrat who was her boss during the proceedings fired her. When asked why in an interview said, "Because she was a liar.

    She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality." In his book, 'Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot,' he goes into further details of why he would not recommend her for future positions of public and private trust.

    During the Clinton administration when Hillary assumed her 'co-presidency' she was put in charge of the healthcare program proposed in 1993 and that same lack of ethics and dishonesty generated a 1997 lawsuit by the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons which cost taxpayers, $285,864.

    The American voter has shown little interest in hard national news and the ignorance among young students in the world of liberal academia is massive. Many have never heard of the significance of the name Chappaquiddick so the Benghazi debacle which belongs squarely on Clinton's head is also dismissed thanks to a protective and negligent media.

    Ben Shapiro of Breitbart wrote last September two days after the murder of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans: Why wasn't there better protection at the consulate? Because that's the way Secretary of State Clinton wanted it; the State Department posted no Marines to the consulate. It was staffed instead by those Libyan "security" forces. The consulate also had "no bulletproof glass, reinforced doors or other features common to embassies."

    Is Hillary Clinton the best Iron Lady America can offer? Comparing Clinton to the British icon is an exercise in absurdity. Lady Thatcher was a woman of honor, courage, high principled who endured ridicule and hatred for saving the British Empire. Even at her death, she is being disrespected by the malcontents of the British underclass who resented her for pulling the rug out from these parasites, who leeched off the taxpaying citizens, to save her country's economy.

    Our country is headed for the same decline that Margaret Thatcher's Britain faced when she took office in 1979. She made tough decisions that stopped the hemorrhaging of the treasury and generated an economic recovery and boom. Hillary Clinton's political composition, on the other hand, is pure Saul Alinsky whom she so admired that her senior thesis at Wellesley College was "There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model."

    She believes that a strong government is the answer to everything even raising our children. Her book, "It Takes a Village" advocates a society which meets all of a child's needs. Parental rights are secondary to that of society in general. This statist view is endemic among the left wing and the mainstream media and was exposed by MSNBC host, Melissa Harris-Perry who reiterated this doctrine saying, "So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities." Margaret Thatcher was a true conservative who believed in personal responsibility, a smaller government but a militarily strong one. There certainly is not anyone like that among the possible Democrat presidential candidates, male or female, for 2016. Most Republicans share Thatcher's positions but for the distaff side, only Sarah Palin emerges with that Iron Lady mien and she is widely considered to be unelectable thanks to the ferocious media assaults on her character. It's unlikely that she would survive a GOP primary although I'd vote for her in a nanosecond.

    While the British deadbeats are celebrating Thatcher's death with parties and songs, singing, 'Ding Dong, the witch is dead' we here in the United States not only mourn her passing as much as we did that of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II but look futilely for our own Iron Lady.

    Maybe we'll just have to settle for an Ironman.

    Publisher's note: Alicia Colon resides in New York City and can be reached at aliciav.colon@gmail.com and at www.aliciacolon.com. Alicia would dearly love to hear from you.
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