Peggy Noonan looks at the past few weeks of Senator Clinton’s campaign and the awakening that appears to be taking place in the electorate. Noonan does so under the light of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s true greatness; something Senator Clinton can never reach.

Margaret Thatcher would no more have identified herself as a woman, or claimed special pleading that she was a mere frail girl, or asked you to sympathize with her because of her sex, than she would have called up the Kremlin and asked how quickly she could surrender.

Thatcher achieved what Senator Clinton thinks she can achieve: the status of a being a true leader, while also happening to be a woman. Leader first, woman second. That can’t be done by playing the gender card, making statements that play on traditional roles of a woman, and by repeatedly displaying through actions, an inability to deal seriously with matters of importance and otherwise.

Can we get a Thatcher here in the States?