Game Change (2012 TV Movie)

Ron Livingston: Mark Wallace

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• Mark Wallace : She constantly slips into these catatonic stupors, and then when we do finally get her to work, she writes all the information down on notecards, but she can't remember any of it. Steve, did you do an approval poll on Alaska? She keeps bringing it up.

  Steve Schmidt : What the fuck? I did that stupid fucking poll a week ago. I told her she's in the seventies!

  Mark Wallace : Yeah, well, I don't think she believes you. She says you made those numbers up.

  Steve Schmidt : [irritated]  She is becoming completely irrational.

  Rick Davis : "Becoming?"

  Mark Wallace : I don't even like to say this, but has it occurred to you guys she might be mentally unstable?

  Steve Schmidt : [too exhausted to answer]  Mark, look, the debate is in five days. What do you think?

  Mark Wallace : ...I think this debate will be a debacle of historic and epic proportions.

  Steve Schmidt : Well, that's encouraging.

• Mark Wallace : Steve, what's up?

  Steve Schmidt : How many questions does Sarah Palin have to answer in the debate?

  Mark Wallace : Uh... twenty-two to twenty-five.

  Steve Schmidt : And how long is each answer?

  Mark Wallace : Two minutes with pivots.

  Steve Schmidt : So if all we have to do is get the best actress in American politics to memorize forty-five minutes' worth of answers, then why did we waste five days trying to get her to understand what any of this shit means?