Leaving aside our personal diffrences minter, I am the quintessential (<correct spelling fron the thesaurus) Conservative party voter/supporter and in my opinion, the Lady was/ still is a political goddess. She and she along put the "Great" back into Great Britain. As others have rightly said, in 1979, the UK wax known as the "sick man of Europe" when she negotiated our rebate it was the start of putting us back on an equal footing with the rest of Europe, we are now (mainly due to her policies which the New Labour party seem to be copying) the strongest ecomomy in Europe, overtaking the once mighty Germans.
As for the "pointless" Falklands war (alas I was serving in Northern Ireland on "other duties" at the time and unable to join the Task Force". Her determination to win them back warned the rest of the world that we were still an formidable world power not to be messed around with. As you rightly say, she won 3 national elections therfore she must have been doing something right.