Julianne Moore says "Thankfully, only Sarah Palin is Sarah Palin.” Ain't that the truth?

In the current issue of Capitol File magazine Julianne Moore has discussed, somewhat more in depth, what it takes to transform oneself into a Mama Grizzly. I am guessing male hormone pills and smacking yourself in the forehead repeatedly with a Ball Pein hammer.

Courtesy of Politico: 

It was a crazy, crazy challenge just to attempt to portray her — a living and extremely well-known and well-documented figure. I basically had two months to prepare, so I cleared my schedule of everything, literally. I cleared everything that didn’t involve my family—I just let go of it and spent all my time doing research. It was total immersion,” Moore told the magazine. 

“The trickiest thing is to take all these physical and vocal characteristics and somehow filter the character’s essence through them. And then you personally have to meet them somewhere, too. There’s this melding that has to happen. … You have a responsibility to illuminate that person, to capture whatever their essence is, or to find their humanity — the stuff that makes them who they are. At the end of the day, I’m never going to be Sarah Palin. Thankfully, only Sarah Palin is Sarah Palin.” 

(I am not a religious person but even I give a prayer of thanks to the fact that there is only ONE Sarah Palin.)  

“Here’s a woman who’s a parent, who’s an actual working mother, who worked her way up from local government, who was definitely middle working class, married to a commercial fisherman. She was incredibly relatable, she was attractive, she was young; she was speaking to a wider portion of the population that didn’t feel that they’d been noticed or seen or heard. In a way she was representing an entire swath of the public that had previously felt invisible,” Moore said. “We continue to respond to people who are the most charismatic like (Palin) who has a natural ability to reach people, that sometimes shoves every other quality out the door.” 

(I am not exactly sure what other "quality" Palin had besides charisma. Unless being irrational, and suffering dizzying mood swings are qualities.) 

But: “She was not qualified to be vice president. She wasn’t a qualified candidate. I think that became quite evident during the campaign. It was so shocking to me when she resigned the governorship of Alaska when the presidential election was over. I was stunned. I just think that shows such an unbelievable lack of interest in the actual governing.” 

Moore found several similarities between her line of work in Hollywood and our line of work here in Washington. 

“I had no idea what really goes into making a candidate. I was actually shocked by how close it was to the way Hollywood markets an actor or film or any idea. It’s about a very careful kind of exposure, and putting candidates on with one anchor and another anchor, and limiting appearances and using everything very strategically”

And in the end THIS (“I had no idea what really goes into making a candidate.), is the important lesson to learn from this movie about how the Republican party chose Sarah Palin for McCain's running mate, and essentially how they seem to choose ALL of their candidates. They chose Palin because she LOOKED the part of the evangelical, pro-life, working mother, who could do it all.

None of it was true but, from a distance, it certainly looked true.

In the end what the Republicans wanted, and still want today, is somebody who has some charisma, photographs well, and will do as they have been told.

That is the very model which Reagan perfected and the one that they have been trying to duplicate over and over again. That is how we needed up with George W. Bush, and his father before him, and that is what they are looking for in their next candidate as well.

Which Grover Norquist actually said with his outside voice during his speech at CPAC:

All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.

Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.

"We just need a president to sign this stuff." Sadly for the McCain campaign, but thankfully for America, they chose an empty shell who did not realize that she was an empty shell.

She thought she was the North "freaking" Star!

However the GOP will not make that mistake again. Romney will clearly jump through whatever hoops they hold up for him. Just so long as they call him MR. PRESIDENT.