Sarah Palin started among us ignorant fellow Alaskans as a breath of fresh air. She was a fresh faced female among an old white male elite. She conveyed a kinda schoolmarm Midwest accent with a sencse of nortern bravado before the trailer park esthetic wore thin. A conservative co-worker said she should stay home and mind the kids. And when the scandal broke of oil biz contractor payoffs to legislators and actual mugs and gift items labeled "Corrupt Bastards Club" she came into fuzzy focus as maybe a reformer. Who knew?

She came off as Fix It Girl. At first. People who knew her from her position in Palmer, which is distant from Anchorage in apace and politics, mentioned that her world view was circumscribed, that she had gone after the local librarian for not censuring certain books. For me it was a scandal that blew up out of nowhere a year into her term, where she had tried to get a cop who was an ex- bro in law fired over personal family issues. For more accurate details see Wikipedia. For less accurate but not wrong entertaiment watch Game Change 2012 starring Julianne Moore. Alaskans were quite taken with the sudden starlight upon us when John McCain selected her as his VP running mate. Hundreds of Chuck Norris jokes were converted to Sarah Palin. But hadn't his people been made aware of her instability? Apparently it was a McCain audible. So the actions and personalities of four women led to the election of Barack Obama: Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric,
Sarah Palin, and Tina Fey.

Since the election, Palin seems to be a proto-Trmp, but in a more trailer-park pamphlet- diatribe manner as opposed to aggressively misquoted Readers Digest mentality. I think she backs him more than the other way round.

Ms. Peltola gives every sign of being intelligent, informed, and being able to bring her background and experience to Congress in a way that can unite divergent viewpoints. In spite of this I think she has a chance.