Game Change2012

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 f***? I did that stupid f***ing 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.