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BY BOB HOLT

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Former Sarah Palin adviser Nicolle Wallace has had her differences with the 2008 vice-presidential candidate since the campaign, said the movie “Game Change” was “true enough.”

Sarah Palin and John McCain have been denouncing the movie about the 2008 presidential campaign “Game Change,” but Wallace called the film accurate, saying it was about the “vast gray area where 99 percent of our politics actually takes place," according to Yahoo! News.

“It was true enough to make me squirm,” she added.

“I believe that if she were on the cusp of becoming the nominee for the Republican party a whole lot of people would talk about some of her more troubling deficiencies," Wallace said in 2010, according to the Huffington Post. "Her incredible cynicism, her bitterness, her aggressive attempts to claw anyone that points out an area for her to work on.”

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Last year, Wallace included a character of a vice presidential candidate suffering from mental illness in her second novel, “It’s Classified.” Wallace said the fictional character was inspired by Palin.

“It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness,” Wallace said to ABC News back in October. “I wasn’t the only one that saw Sarah Palin vacillate between glorious highs on the campaign trail to really troubling lows when she seemed stumped in interviews.”

“In private it was more serious than that,” Wallace continued. “She was incredibly withdrawn, seemed deeply troubled. Those behaviors concerned a lot of people, and we had discussions about whether it would be appropriate from someone, when the pressure of the campaign as placed on her shoulders, to have to endure the burdens of the vice presidency?”

Several former and current Palin advisers backed up the former Alaska governor, speaking out against the movie last month. Most blamed former McCain adviser Steve Schmidt for spreading what they called “falsehoods” about Palin. Schmidt said to CNN, "The movie accurately and truthfully captures the experience of the campaign. "I regret playing a part in a process that yielded someone on the ticket who was not prepared to be president.”

According to the Huffington Post, McCain denied that one scene in the movie ever happened. In the scene, Schmidt tells McCain that a boring white male for vice-president won't adequately spice up the GOP ticket, McCain responds, "So find me a woman."