What HBO’s campy Sarah Palin movie ‘Game Change’ might be able to teach us about JD Vance & the 2024 election
couch mouth since the RNC. Some folks are already writing the “elegy” for his short stint on the campaign trail.And then there’s the Democrats, who have a new spring in their step ever since President Biden ended his bid for re-election, throwing his full support behind VP Kamala Harris.
As she vets a number of swing-state politicians—who are largely older, white men—to find her Veep, it’s a little like watching a high-stakes version of The Golden Bachelorette play out in the public forum.Vance, who turned his back on a transgender friend, has an apparent interest in women and dolphins.
Yes, these are unprecedented times… except they kind of aren’t! If you can remember back long, long ago to 2008, our country was similarly going through an election cycle with an outsized focus on potential VPs—namely former Alaska governor Sarah Palin—and our heads are still spinning to this day.In fact, the story of Palin’s rollercoaster ride along the campaign trail was such a doozy that it was turned into a movie just a few short years later.Director Jay Roach’s Game Change premiered on HBO on March 10, 2012, and it saw the great Julianne Moore don the half-hearted beehive and rimless glasses of the one-time vice-presidential hopeful.
