What Michele Bachmann learned from Sarah Palin — and Hillary Clinton
I never imagined anyone like Michele Bachmann when I envisioned the country's first female president. In fact, I imagined someone quite different. In the aftermath of the defeats of Sarah Palin and Hillary Rodham Clinton on the national stage in 2008, I created President Charlotte Kramer, the fictional heroine of my novel "Eighteen Acres." I wanted to spend some time with the woman who ultimately cracks that final glass ceiling in American politics, if only in a book.
Kramer was a fantasy president — a principled conservative with Margaret Thatcher's clarity on foreign affairs and Clinton's stoic tolerance of the indignities of public office. Yet she strove to be post-partisan, and if Bachmann were in Congress during a Kramer administration, she would be the president's chief antagonist. But Bachmann does have something in common with my heroine: She has used the experiences, missteps and successes of past female candidates to propel her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
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