The Iron Lady’s legacy is her love for liberty, not shattering glass ceilings.
By Mona Charen
President Obama’s statement honoring Margaret Thatcher was an example of the chameleon-like nature of liberalism. Rewriting history is a liberal specialty. Just as the anti–Cold War liberals were miraculously transformed into cold warriors after the war had been won, yesterday’s anti-Thatcherites are today morphing into something else.

The president’s statement praises Thatcher as one of the “great champions of freedom and liberty” and goes on to observe that “she stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered.”
So today we all celebrate Margaret Thatcher as a feminist icon? This is revisionism of a high order.

Of course, she ought to have been a feminist heroine. Thatcher was one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century and the greatest female leader of modern times. A woman of rare brilliance, grit, accomplishment, and determination, she won three national elections, helped to dismantle the Soviet empire, and transformed her nation and the world for the better.

But no, the feminists loathed her. During her first campaign for national office in 1979, the more polite noseholders said, “We want women’s rights, not a right-wing woman.” The less subtle circulated the slogan “Ditch the B****.” Following the release of the movie The Iron Lady, a feminist wailed on the Huffington Post that Thatcher was “the embodiment of everything that feminism is not: selfish, rigid, and intolerant.”

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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/3...her-mona-charen

also from the article: Ah, yes, the tolerant feminists! Thatcher understood them well enough, remarking, “I owe nothing to women’s lib.”

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my comments...

I think about how much credit for being a female, even a black female Condi Rice received. They love to hail their own as ceiling breakers even as the ceiling had already been broken by a conservative. But clearly that didn't count.

Recall how SC Justice Sonja Sotomayer was touted as a hispanic woman but before as Bush nominated the consdervative Miguel Estrada that did not count for beans.

The press is a partisan whore.

Jean Kirkpatrick.

You can tell how great a woman she was by how fast all the Leftists are running to take a piss on her grave. She took a country that was on the brink of collapse and turned it into a vibrant free market economy. If anyone doesn't realize how bad a shape Briton was in the 70's, Google "Winter of Discontent England" or "British Leyland". They were dire times.