Looks like we have a contender for Time magazine’s next list of 100 best novels:

Sen. Barbara Boxer’s debut novel has yet to be published, but it already has created a dark and stormy night for Republicans. They’re mostly villains in “A Time to Run,” a suspense tale penned by the California Democrat.
The New York Times questioned Mrs. Boxer’s portrayal of Republicans as “snakes” and Democrats as “saints” in the book, which chronicles the adventures of a diminutive redhead who assumes her husband’s Senate seat after he is killed, then tries to foil the nomination of a conservative woman to the Supreme Court… [snip]
In an interview with the Times on Sunday, however, Mrs. Boxer acknowledged writing the book “with a point of view,” adding that as a party, the “Democrats have virtuous goals.”
Mrs. Boxer told Publishers Weekly last month that her novel was “definitely a struggle between liberals and conservatives, and knowing that I wrote the book, you can imagine who wins the day.”

Somebody should tell Boxer that even fiction has to be believable.