Somewhere near the end of Wednesday night's brutally long debate, most of the top-tier Republican presidential candidates managed to prove they are incapable of identifying prominent women in U.S. history. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush offered up a particularly perplexing suggestion for replacing Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill: former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
In addition to confusing U.S. voters, Bush's idea didn't sit too well with Thatcher's own nation, as Mashable notes. There was cynical political commentary.
But doesn't she belong on British currency?
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