Julianne Moore has done the impossible!

Schimdt goes up to palin and says he needs to start eating better and she is hooked on a bad diet and shows her rolled up In a ball and shows her crying and rocking back and forth and she is totally uncommunicative with Nicole Wallace. You need to watch the movie

I was not referring to 2012. However, in 2008 to 2010 she continued to be looked upon very favorably by republicans.

I totally agree Stilavictor. I hope that one day outstanding cable movies like Game Change will be included in the Academy Awards. If they were, Julianne Moore would have definitely won for Best Actress.

We just watched Game Change again with some friends who hadn't seen it. Afterwards we had a stimulating discussion about the movie and the choosing of Palin, and the GOP, and the political process. Pretty much the only things we all did agree on was that we were grateful Sarah Palin did not get elected, that Game Change was a first rate production, and that Julianne Moore is one of America's premiere actresses.

The movie shows McCain watching the couric interview and then saying "I thought Katie liked me". What does that have to do with anything!?? He saw Palins extreme stupidity and did nothing. It wasn't too late to do anything! It was only 2 weeks after he picked her! Just two weeks? McCain did not recognize extreme stupidity when he saw it. Schmidt and Wallace saw it in their first conversations with her.

The reason the movie shows you about why she did well in the debate was that Schmidt stopped treating her like she could learn anything and was just an actress who could memorize lines! But all polls said Biden Winning the debate. She didn't do well and win it she just didn't have another live couric thing. But because they had trained her like an actress because she was too stupid to learn concepts. And voters wanted Biden!

Then she became an uncooperative monster who said "I know what I know" and did whatever she wanted. Mccai. Said he was afraid Of her and her turning on him!!

The base didn't know the truth about Palins catatonic stupors and nasty private behavior! That is why polls of the republican base never had her ahead in any state for president.

"I don't think McCain is as culpable in the disastrous choice of Palin."

We just rewatched the movie and I think John McCain probably spent the least amount of time with Palin of everyone. He really didn't know her, other than the "You betcha! I'm your gal!" speech she gave him initially. But he would be the one to look bad every time Palin looked bad. And he couldn't very well say "Uh, I screwed up and it turns out Sarah Palin was the wrong choice but vote for me for president anyway"! I felt sorry for John McCain.

Well, I'll go for giving Julienne Moore a 10/10 for her portrayal! (However, I also agree with you about Sophie's Choice, a film I can't even think about without distress.)

Here's what I think the movie showed about Sarah Palin, though. Turns out it's worse than we even thought it was. It's not that the movie shows her deluded into thinking she is smarter than everyone else knows. It's that she came to believe that intelligence, education, preparation all have NO PLACE in someone who is "Presidential material."

She even said as much, herself-- if she did what she could do best, then the American people LOVED her. That's all she came to believe in. She believed that's enough to be VP/President, and she went around selling the crowds on it, too, which is perhaps the most damaging aspect of her appeal.

I remember during the campaign seeing various ordinary people interviewed who gushed about Palin that "she's one of us" or "she's just like the rest of us" or "she makes me feel like I'm her equal," etc. While I understand the emotional appeal of that kind of grassroots rapport, the real message is that the country can be run by someone who is no different from you or me. WTF? I sincerely hope not. There is no way I could be VPres or Pres of the US, and I have at least two and maybe three more college degrees than Palin has.

This dangerous strain of anti-intellectualism and anti-education in our country is frightening not only for its stoking hatred among the "grassroots-types" (for lack of a better word) but it will ultimately kill both our government and our educational systems. In my state, taxpayers are getting less and less willing to pay taxes to fund our schools; they want to keep more of their own money! Cut those taxes. Teachers don't need no more money, anyhow. We need to build more prisons in our state, so that's where any tax money goes. Not to the schools. We have public schools in my city that still aren't air conditioned.

But it's not showy to run on a platform of air conditioning all the schools. No, we need to improve our students' terrible rankings in math and reading (never mind the fact that they're spending probably 5 or 6 months of the year in unair-conditioned classrooms when temperatures are in the mid- and upper-90s). Bush's "no child left behind" has all but destroyed public education in our country, which is amazingly ironic when you think about the fact that he and his party spent so much time viciously attacking the unwieldy size of the Federal Government and of course the amount of money it takes to fund "big government," and yet his administration added more Federal rules and restrictions and inane standardized testing, and a whole lot more business-types (who know little to nothing about education) hired to check up on it all, on to an educational system that was working a whole lot better at the state level than before he brought his "Big Government" to take over "assessment" and "accountability." And, forgive me for a bitter remark, but the very people who are sent to measure "good teaching" don't have the slightest idea what good teaching is. It can't be measured on a business model of success. But this is what happens when our government's leaders care more about courting the love and favor of the people than about finding real solutions to real problems through the intellectual and academic disciplines that make up our educational systems.

I didn't mean to go off on that tangent, but it's a good example of what results from the kind of politics that are all show and no substance, no true knowledge. The showmanship puts people at ease and makes a large segment of our country feel more accepted and less insecure, since Ol' Roughrider Teddy is just one of us, you know? Just Plain Folks.

But if he or she is just one of us, then who is qualified to run the country?

One of the Congressional districts near where I live elected a new Congressman and sent him off to Washington a year or so ago, I guess, with his only experience of ANY kind being that he is a bang-up great auctioneer. Yup. He shore is loved in these here parts. But what will he contribute to the House? I mean, really. I guess if they need to auction off something, he's their man.

It's this knack of appealing to people's general need for love and for feeling good about themselves, even if they never went to college or wouldn't know a newspaper if it bit them-- that is what this movie shows Sarah Palin discovering during the campaign. The idea of "just being yourself" isn't diabolical, but while she's is just bein' folks and making us feel like we belong somewhere with someone, she's not coming clean about her complete inability to do anything but drum up popularity. And worse, she doesn't feel the least bit bad about the "bait and switch" she's perpetrating.

The person who sat with Katie Couric was the REAL Sarah Pslin, it turns out, because she didn't prepare and thus she was answering from her own honest store of knowledge, however small. But she was perfectly happy letting us THINK that the real Sarah Palin was the one who knocked a grand slam in the debate, when in actuality she was only reciting material researched and written for her by someone else.

Okay, it's true, all Presidents and VPs have "ghost writers," but the difference is that those past Prezs at least understood what they were saying. Even if a more eloquent writer put it into words, the speaker knew what he was saying, and more besides. With Sarah Palin, it was apparently "fake it til you fake it." An endless loop.

AND if you don't like the outcome of some event-- like, say, a court case brought against you-- she clearly learned that all you have to do is say what you wish had happened instead. Todd belonged to the radical society to secede from the union? Oh,no-- he signed mistakenly on the wrong thing. For SEVEN YEARS??

Terrifying.