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Opinion: John McCain and Sarah Palin together again as you’ve never seen them before

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They’re baaaack.

And just in time for the 2012 political season.

HBO is currently filming its adaptation of ‘Game Change.’

That’s Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s bestselling chronicle of the 2008 John McCain-Sarah Palin presidential campaign that didn’t sell so well.

Their Arizona-Alaska effort to keep the White House in Republican control, coming after eight years of you-know-who and his sidekick, you-know-him-too, who led the country into two wars and left the country in the hands of an ex-state you-know-what who’s upped the ante in one war and started another against Libya.

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Other than that and the spending beyond belief and the $3 trillion-plus of new national debt and no end in sight to the harsh political tone of Washington and the healthcare bill that seems to have more large companies exempted from its rules than are covered, other than those little things, everything turned out for the better.

Anyway, for those folks who want to reminisce about that endless campaign as we head into another that’ll cost even more, this movie should be right up their alley.

Here’s a newly released photo of McCain, who will play himself. No, not really. This is Ed Harris pretending to be John McCain.

Julianne Moore has been chosen to play the role of the Tina Fey lookalike from Alaska.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Upper photo: Ed Harris as McCain in ‘Game Change.’ Credit: HBO / EW.com

Lower photo: Julianne Moore as Palin in ‘Game Change.’

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