# Cast the 2008 Primaries

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-2008-primaries/432797>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 9, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-2008-primaries/432797 "2008-01-09T00:46:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-2008-primaries/432797/1 "2008-01-09T00:46:55Z")

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Playing Mike Huckabee: [Kevin Spacey](http://reporter.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/14/kevin_spacey.jpg)

Playing Mitt Romney: [George Hamilton](http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/263231~George-Hamilton-Posters.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Sprockets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sprockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sprockets)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-2008-primaries/432797/2 "2008-01-09T01:20:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder]  
Playing Mike Huckabee: [Kevin Spacey](http://reporter.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/14/kevin_spacey.jpg)  
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Oh no. Huckabee is so played by Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-2008-primaries/432797/3 "2008-01-09T01:27:29Z")

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Playing Obama: a young Morgan Freeman.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-2008-primaries/432797/4 "2008-01-09T16:12:39Z")

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Playing Hillary Clinton: [Rebecca De Mornay](http://images.wikia.com/jfc/images/8/8e/Rebeccademornay2.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-2008-primaries/432797/5 "2008-01-09T18:47:56Z")

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Give John Travolta a silver wig so he can reprise his role as Bill Clinton from “Primary Colors”.

Michael Ironside as Rudy Guiliani, but that goes without saying.

Fred Thompson will be played by Tommy Lee Jones.

Now, we have to decide who Tom Hanks will play, we gotta have Tom Hanks attached to this project. Edwards?

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-2008-primaries/432797/6 "2008-01-09T19:24:12Z")

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Ron Paul is being played by Tom Cruise in some of his Mission: Impossible makeup.