The 1991 Novel That Predicted Sarah Palin

Now then: To suggest that Sarah Palin, as she accelerated through the mayorship of Wasilla, the governorship of Alaska, the vice presidential candidacy, the book tour, the bus tour, the reality show, the Fox news gig, and so on, was in the grip of a prolonged clinical mania?that would be unscientific. But if you?re any kind of Palin-watcher (and aren?t we all?) you will not have failed to pick up the futuristic resonances of Ride a Cockhorse. A small town revolutionized, a good-ol?-boys network dismantled ... A triumphantly attractive woman crushing the opposition ... A pell-mell accession to power, an enthralled media, a number of aggrieved victims ... ?Bureaucratic procedures were replaced by flashes of intuition,? writes Kennedy of Mrs Fitzgibbons at the Parish Bank, exactly describing Palin?s gutsy, freestyle approach to governance, her magnificent impatience with process.

Both women touch strange chords of worship in the populace: ?An elderly woman in a frayed red coat reached out and clasped Mrs. Fitzgibbons by the elbow. ?Good for you, dear,? she smiled toothlessly. ?I?m proud of you.? ? And both women fire their personalities like lasers into a suddenly-exposed arena of male incompetence and unattractiveness. Here is kindly Leonard Frye, vice president of the Parish Bank?s home loan department, as seen through the eyes of Mrs. Fitzgibbon: ?The idea that a man like [this], moping about in his well-worn, shiny-trousered blue suit, should occupy a position of dignity and importance ... struck her as a near obscenity.? And here is Sarah Palin, from her auto-hagiography Going Rogue, on the unfortunate Alaskan legislative director John Bitney: ?Slouching against the wall, he assured us that, yeah, he had everything under control, mission accomplished. The fact that his shirt was buttoned one button off and his shirttail was poking through his open fly didn?t exactly inspire confidence.?

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