Game Change (2012 TV Movie)

Peter MacNicol: Rick Davis

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• Rick Davis : Listen, I too wish that the American people would choose the future Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson, but unfortunately, that's not the way it works anymore. Now it takes movie-star charisma to get elected President, and Obama and Palin, that's what they are - they're stars.

  Steve Schmidt : Primary difference being Sarah Palin can't name a Supreme Court decision, whereas Barack Obama was a constitutional law professor.

  Rick Davis : Fuck you.

• Mark Salter : You know what Dick Cheney said when he found out we picked her?

  Rick Davis : What?

  Mark Salter : He said we made a reckless choice. When you lose the moral high ground to Dick Cheney... it's time to rethink your entire life.

  Steve Schmidt : Enough Cheney cracks, okay? I mean, he's very misunderstood.

  Mark Salter : How does he eat when he's wearing Darth Vader's helmet, anyway?

• Rick Davis : Culvahouse cleared her.

  Steve Schmidt : With what? Wikipedia?

• Steve Schmidt : Still think she's fit for office?

  Rick Davis : Aw, who cares. In forty-eight hours no one will even remember who she is.

• 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.

• Rick Davis : [during the opening of the debate when Biden and Palin greet each other]  Why - why is the mic on?

  Steve Schmidt : No, no, no, it's cool. They're gonna think it's some kind of Machiavellian Jedi power-play.