However popular Thatcher was - she supported a mass-murdering fascist dictator, declared him great democrat, described those who attempted to bring him to trial as "running a police state" and put the Conservative Party at his disposal in order to prevent him being brought to justice.
All the Huffington Post quotes in the world will not alter any of those facts one iota.
I seem to remember a little feller with a mustache being rather "popular" with the German people at one time - six million who wouldn't have liked him if they had survived wouldn't have liked him very much.
Thatcher was a political thug who admired fascist dictators and supported their murderous policies - I have little doubt that, if she hadn't been kicked out on her fascist arse, she would have utilised as many of those policies as the thought she could get away with to put us in our places - the fact that she considered using the army to crush the miners sttrike is indication enough of that.
That she was "popular" with many of the British people really doesn't say a great deal for those people, nor does it say for her continuing admirers who support her fascism by refusing to acknowledge it - or even discuss it.   
She she is, and will remain the most directly hated Prime Minister Britain has ever know.
Jim Carroll