Right now, I'm waiting for Sarah Palin and Joe O'Biden to do their thing.

I see that longtime commenter Portia is also waiting. And she has emailed Sean Kinsell with her thoughts:

Right now I'm waiting for the debate to see how she performs. NOT to make up my mind. As I said, it's pretty much get drunk and vote for McCain and I'd have done it even if he picked Romney. (If he picked Huckabee I had plans to find a lone island and hide out to wait for the end of the world.) I don't like McCain, but I'm back in the familiar situation of the seventies, where I have to pick between those who will get me and my family killed and those who MIGHT allow us to live another four years.

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There are other reasons to vote for McCain, including that the press wants us to vote for Obama and I don't like being told what to do.

But I hope and pray I'm right and that there is a "there" there when it comes to Palin. Because if McCain wins, and croaks, I don't want her playing sweet little girl to Putin, heaven help us all. Perhaps not as bad as Obama would be, but six of one, half a dozen of the other.

On experience -- not too fussed, provided McCain doesn't die first day in office -- PROVIDED SHE KICKS OFF "good little girl" mode. I'm hoping it happens sometime. Can't promise, because it depends on McCain's attitude, too.

I'm glad the voters will eventually be allowed to express their own opinion.