by Clifford F. Thies

Critically-acclaimed actress Julianne Moore will be playing Sarah Palin in the forthcoming HBO movie "Game Change," based on the best selling book of the same name by political journalists John Heilermann and Mark Halperin. The book is about the entire campaign, not simply the Sarah Palin's role in the campaign. Indeed, the part of the book concerning Palin is largely based on post-election interviews with McCain staffers who were dumping on Palin. If we can believe them, Sarah Palin was such an idiot that only an idiot would name her as a running mate, which doesn't reflect well on them. The McCain boys were looking for a fall guy, when the truth is the economy cratered, we were in a prolonged war, the media was swooning over Obama, and the guy raised like a billion dollars. Sarah Palin's nomination completely energized the Republican campaign, she drew crowds much larger than McCain (but not as large as Obama), and she acquitted herself quite well in the Vice Presidential debate. For a time, McCain pulled even with Obama, although it was Katie bar the door after the financial panic.