The risible contention offered by Terry McAuliffe, that Hillary Clinton is the second coming of Margaret Thatcher caused much laughter and scratching of heads this weekend.

Both Sissy Willis and Stephen Bainbridge shredded the statement with ease yesterday and others have had some fun with the ridiculous notion.

HILLARY CLINTON is to be presented as America’s Margaret Thatcher as she tries to become the first woman to win the White House. As she entered the 2008 presidential race yesterday, a senior adviser said that her campaign would emphasise security, defence and personal strengths reminiscent of the Iron Lady.

“Their policies are totally different but they are both perceived as very tough,” said Terry McAuliffe, Clinton’s campaign chairman. “She is strong on foreign policy. People have got to know you are going to keep them safe.”

So far Hillary’s definition of tough has been to position herself as opposed to the surge, not a very independent move because she’s doing a twofer: trying to catch up with Obama and the rest of her party and appeal to her leftist base. It’s positioning through polls instead of standing up for a policy she believes in. As for being strong on foreign policy? How exactly?

Some have given Hillary’s internet “In to win” video announcement good marks for seeming real. I disagree. Everything Hillary said and did in her little vlog was orchestrated.

He said he helped come up with one of the more memorable lines in the video: “So let’s talk. Let’s chat. Let’s start a dialogue about your ideas and mine. Because the conversation in Washington has been just a little one-sided lately, don’t you think?

The above quote wasn’t from the vaunted, great brain of Hillary but that of ad man, Jimmy Siegel. I can’t imagine Maggie Thatcher making the banal and Oprah-ish decision to chat, talk or dialogue on the internet, instead, Lady Thatcher was known for expressing her opinions in a much more straight forward, eloquent manner, “I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”

And……..There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

The late President Ronald Reagan said of Lady Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher — this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well. She is truly a great statesman. So much so that I’ll correct what I just said: She is a great stateswoman holding her own among all the statesmen of the world.

Hillary’s chatting today. Hugh Hewitt played a bit of Hillary responding to questions read to her by one of her lackeys….hand picked questions. How was that a chat?

As I suspected, Hillary’s on another listening tour which is in essence another way to shield herself from questions from the press. The “chat” questions were filtered, nothing controversial was asked, only questions Hillary wanted to answer were addressed. She talks, we listen.

Hillary’s favorite movies: Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Out of Africa. Arrggh! Out of Africa??? When I think of Hillary and movies I think of Mommie Dearest.

Hillary is no Maggie Thatcher and there is not a political strategist in this world who can succeed in making us believe it.

UPDATE: Jim Geraghty watched Hillary’s webcast so we didn’t have to.