Just watched Game Change

I have to say I thought something I never thought before. I had pity for Sarah Palin. The movie showed her as a person who really wasn't ready to run for VP and as someone that was thrown into something she was in no way prepared for. The worst part was the cynical nature of McCain's handlers who continued to push her as qualified for VP when they clearly didn't think she was. I took the movie with a grain of salt as it was a movie and not a documentary, but it took my cynicism of politics and took it to a new level.

Soulshiner wrote: I have to say I thought something I never thought before. I had pity for Sarah Palin. The movie showed her as a person who really wasn't ready to run for VP and as someone that was thrown into something she was in no way prepared for. The worst part was the cynical nature of McCain's handlers who continued to push her as qualified for VP when they clearly didn't think she was. I took the movie with a grain of salt as it was a movie and not a documentary, but it took my cynicism of politics and took it to a new level.

Obviously it took your credulity to new heights.

But consider this, how many VP's really are qualified to be President? Biden? I don't think so. Personally I think he is not mentally all there. Dan Quayle? Palin had more executive experience. Very few people make their choice for president based on the VP pick, but for 2008 it was the #1 Dem talking point. Because Palin is unqualified, that means you can't vote for McCain?

In McCain's case, because of his age and health, there was an even greater chance his VP would be president. Just because he's still around now doesn't mean he would have been had he been under the extreme pressures of being the president.

I saw the movie, too and I felt sorry for Palin being handled like that. I'm sure Biden knows why there's a North and South Korea or East and West Berlin, or knows that Africa is not a country and what the Fed stands for.

McCain's staff picked Palin the same way Journey picked their new lead singer - FROM YOUTUBE.
That says it all.

What I took from the movie is that if either the campaign manager or the lawyer had asked her some basic questions (they both thought the other had), she never would have been picked. They just assumed she had a basic understanding of the world and never went there until after it was too late. I'm sure she's up to speed on all that now.

JSG wrote: What I took from the movie is that if either the campaign manager or the lawyer had asked her some basic questions (they both thought the other had), she never would have been picked. They just assumed she had a basic understanding of the world and never went there until after it was too late. I'm sure she's up to speed on all that now.

Probably not. (crap... we agree on something).

FredHayek wrote: Because Palin is unqualified, that means you can't vote for McCain?

Yep, but it wasn't because she was unqualified, it was because she was obviously a person who was so uninformed about almost everything a president should be. Even the McCain staffers came to realize that and McCain wanted nothing to do with her. I would take President Biden over President Palin each and every time. Palin is more suited to being a talking head than a politician and it seems that she has realized this herself.

Good thing we never got that piece of sh@t John Edwards as VP.

I felt the movie portrayed Palin in a favorable light as a very effective politition from a small, rural town. She was effective communicating with her constituents in a folksy way.

But once she got on the big national stage her weaknesses showed and that's were the movie started to back off on her. It did show them happy with her perfomance in her debate with Biden, though. But I agree, she wasn't ready for prime time on a national stage.