Game Change

From the NY Times -

"The film rightly makes a point of showing how deeply Ms. Palin, the mother of a baby with Down syndrome, connects with parents of special-needs children on the campaign trail. But mostly it chronicles the advisers’ consternation over what they missed in the vetting process: As Nicolle Wallace (Sarah Paulson), a former Bush aide who was a senior Palin adviser, puts it, “She didn’t know why North and South Korea were different countries.”

I watched the public release last night at 6pm on HBO.  Admittedly, I'm not Sarah Palin's best friend.  Frankly, I was looking for blog material and ended up with a completely different take.

I'm frightened to think that the Republican Party, although admitting that they had made a mistake, went on with the task of trying to make the silk purse.  Palin appears to have been a great governor for the State of Alaska, without consideration to over-reaching her power and privilege.  She is given the appearance of being accessible and an everday mom.  Who wouldn't be honored to be asked to accept her party's nomination for VP?

As the Times' quote demonstrates, Palin was about as prepared to be a VP candidate as I am for performing at Carnagie Hall.  We all must accept our limitations to a degree and more importantly, those around us shouldn't bullshit themselves or us.  This was not the case the the McCain advisors.

If you can get a peek at HBO, by all means see this movie.  It was well researched an every effort was made to not turn it into a hack piece by the writers or producers.  My guess is you'll have a new appreciation for Sarah Palin and will understand that she is painfully inappropriate for any role beyond the borders of Alaska, and yet, considering her obsession in the movie about her popularity rating in her home state, you'll understand that, without someone helping her inflate her ego, she is quite comfortable being Alaska's Hockeymom/Momma Grizzly.

FOX would be a better friend if they would quit bringing her on and letter her make stupid statements about Obama wanting to return to the pre-Civil War days.  She's easy fodder because she's not educated on matters and refuses to digest that which is spoon fed to her.

You will also pain, as I did, watching Palin go into a teen like trance with texting, while the Nicole Wallace character practically convulses with rage trying to prep her for the Katie Couric interview.  As we all know, Wallace, among others took the blame for that fiasco.

Sarah Palin is Sarah.  There is no changing that.  The Republican Party can continue on their quest to create a candidate or realize that she is but a pretty face, with some moxie thrown in, but not someone to make it on the national stage.