2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Game Change" Movie Takeaways [View all]Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)The movie was fantastic! I think they should have spent more time on how vicious she was during her rallies and the racism that went unchecked. They should've delved into her life just a little bit more. They let her off the hook.
As for McCain, I never knew that it was he who insisted that Palin was the choice. I thought that it was pushed on him from the likes of Bill Kristol and the other neocons who thought she was cute and could be controlled/puppet. Turns out that Schmidt, Wallace and Davis did not want her from the very beginning. I liked the portrayal of Steve Schmidt. I will view him differently from now on when I see him on MSNBC. He apparently didn't want the job, but it was his negligence that ultimately gave us all Sarah Palin.
But, overall, I really enjoyed the movie and would watch again.
The most poignant part of the movie for me was at the end when John McCain warned her not to align herself with Rush Limbaugh and the other extremists; they will destroy the Republican Party. It was prophetic. Sadly, neither McCain nor Palin headed his own advice. John McCain is a huge disappointment. He's a bitter, old man who sold himself out to the extremists.