Game Change? Yes, and it changed 2012 politics, too

I watched the HBO movie Game Change, and although I do have a different and slightly better view of Sarah Palin, I have much worse thoughts now on all those behind the scene in her being picked. Not so much because of the 2008 election, but because of this election, and I'm afraid, all elections in the future. Why? Because I wonder, if McCain had picked a safe, boring, but very competent person, man or woman, would Cain  have have run, and therefore, gotten into the GOP debates? Very doubtful. Maybe the same could be said for Bachmann, Santorum, and maybe Newt. In other words, could a dynamic, basically one-trick candidate even try to run for President? I don't know. But I do know that Sarah Palin, by her beliefs and cult-of-personality, not her ideas, energized a large group of people. This emboldened others this year, and will far into the future, to try the same thing. And millions of Americans will follow these cult-of-personalities, but they will always be a minority. Think the debates were torture to watch? Wait until there are only one-trick candidates, preying on only the most base and crass of emotions, to choose from on the GOP side. Then, people will stop and ask themselves, who was the first to set us on this path, and who put that person there?  All they'll have to do is watch Game Change, and wonder why she was ever chosen.