I can believe that the real people portrayed by Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris would have conversations like the ones shown at the beginning of this Bioflick, showing with almost unbearable precision why the people overwhelmingly chose John McCain's opponent in 2008. I only started paying attention to politics in the 2008 election: when Sarah Palin made her acceptance speech after being picked to be VP Candidate, I remember her first words to the public as being more antagonistic over her party's then-opponent than this film shows.
Julianne Moore becomes Sarah Palin for this 2-Hour jaunt back to 2008: So much so that it scares me, just like the original Sarah Palin did in 2008 when I walked out of a friends house on the night she made her acceptance speech, when I had been planning on voting for McCain and changed my mind due to the first words out of Sarah Palin's Mouth.
Why did it take the McCain campaign so long to see what I saw within thirty seconds? They wanted to believe that she had something substantive to offer an administration. But they believed in something that did not exist, and this film in great documentary style shows us exactly why this is true.
In 2012 I can see that this was not a fluke, that other people with no qualifications had also been elected to leadership positions, many of them in 2010. This film also deals with this issue: How can uneducated people get elected into these important posts that require extraordinary ability? This film shows us, THIS is how that happens.
Most People do not know what is happening on the other side of the globe, most people do not even know what is occurring on the other side of the towns they live in. John McCain, he knew, and I respected this in him. But all members of an administration need to be as well-informed, because "most people" are not running for elected office. And this film shows step by step how the phrase "Not Enough Experience" when referring to their opponent came back and bit them on the rear end.
As and actress, Julianne Moore shows more talent in representing an historical figure than Palin did when being coached in world politics by the best experts that could be hired by the republican party at the time.
This film depicts the real reason why Palin was selected with clarity and this is what frightens me, I was not aware of the other two possibilities, if McCain had chosen one of his other possibilities, that would have been as much of a bold move as choosing Sarah Palin.
I understand why McCain made the choice after watching this, this movie shows us why this was a mistake. If Republicans wish to be elected and re-elected, they must first have a change of heart that is not just words to get them elected, what they say has to be heartfelt and honest, and they must DO what they say they are going to do, because "We the People" can tell if they are not being honest, we can smell what is bogus, even with the McCain campaign sequestering Palin from media access for the first part of their campaign, she had already laid down quite a reputation which the vetting process failed to dig into.
2008 was the last election where limited funds were available for campaigning for either side. We see today that this policy of keeping a lid on the amount any special interest group can donate was a wise policy and needs to be put back into place - It was to make sure that the people's voice is more important to any given election. And the people's voice could be heard loud and clear on Election Day 2008. Since 2010 and the unfortunate "victory" of "citizen's united" this voice now has to work much harder than ever in being heard.
But we also see that even with obstacles like "citizens united" people who believe will do what it takes to make that voice heard.
I believe the biggest mistake of the McCain/Palin campaign was that the party did not learn from that mistake and instead of having what was needed-A Change of Heart over a Change of Game - They have gone for burying the people's true political voice, by loud special interest group noise, by trying to suppress voters who will likely vote against them, and by changing policy on issues more times per minute than any transistor J/K Flip-Flop circuit.
If the republican party wants my vote ever again in the future, it will take more than a change of game. They need to change all of their archaic policies. Because this is the 21st century, not the 16th, and we live in a democracy, not a theocracy. And if anyone does not know what a theocracy looks like they forget the government which imprisoned over fifty American citizens for 444 days back in 1979-81.
Julianne Moore becomes Sarah Palin for this 2-Hour jaunt back to 2008: So much so that it scares me, just like the original Sarah Palin did in 2008 when I walked out of a friends house on the night she made her acceptance speech, when I had been planning on voting for McCain and changed my mind due to the first words out of Sarah Palin's Mouth.
Why did it take the McCain campaign so long to see what I saw within thirty seconds? They wanted to believe that she had something substantive to offer an administration. But they believed in something that did not exist, and this film in great documentary style shows us exactly why this is true.
In 2012 I can see that this was not a fluke, that other people with no qualifications had also been elected to leadership positions, many of them in 2010. This film also deals with this issue: How can uneducated people get elected into these important posts that require extraordinary ability? This film shows us, THIS is how that happens.
Most People do not know what is happening on the other side of the globe, most people do not even know what is occurring on the other side of the towns they live in. John McCain, he knew, and I respected this in him. But all members of an administration need to be as well-informed, because "most people" are not running for elected office. And this film shows step by step how the phrase "Not Enough Experience" when referring to their opponent came back and bit them on the rear end.
As and actress, Julianne Moore shows more talent in representing an historical figure than Palin did when being coached in world politics by the best experts that could be hired by the republican party at the time.
This film depicts the real reason why Palin was selected with clarity and this is what frightens me, I was not aware of the other two possibilities, if McCain had chosen one of his other possibilities, that would have been as much of a bold move as choosing Sarah Palin.
I understand why McCain made the choice after watching this, this movie shows us why this was a mistake. If Republicans wish to be elected and re-elected, they must first have a change of heart that is not just words to get them elected, what they say has to be heartfelt and honest, and they must DO what they say they are going to do, because "We the People" can tell if they are not being honest, we can smell what is bogus, even with the McCain campaign sequestering Palin from media access for the first part of their campaign, she had already laid down quite a reputation which the vetting process failed to dig into.
2008 was the last election where limited funds were available for campaigning for either side. We see today that this policy of keeping a lid on the amount any special interest group can donate was a wise policy and needs to be put back into place - It was to make sure that the people's voice is more important to any given election. And the people's voice could be heard loud and clear on Election Day 2008. Since 2010 and the unfortunate "victory" of "citizen's united" this voice now has to work much harder than ever in being heard.
But we also see that even with obstacles like "citizens united" people who believe will do what it takes to make that voice heard.
I believe the biggest mistake of the McCain/Palin campaign was that the party did not learn from that mistake and instead of having what was needed-A Change of Heart over a Change of Game - They have gone for burying the people's true political voice, by loud special interest group noise, by trying to suppress voters who will likely vote against them, and by changing policy on issues more times per minute than any transistor J/K Flip-Flop circuit.
If the republican party wants my vote ever again in the future, it will take more than a change of game. They need to change all of their archaic policies. Because this is the 21st century, not the 16th, and we live in a democracy, not a theocracy. And if anyone does not know what a theocracy looks like they forget the government which imprisoned over fifty American citizens for 444 days back in 1979-81.