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 predict that she’ll do better than a lot of her critics expect. Whether she’ll “beat” O’Biden, I don’t know. I thought McCain beat Obama, but a huge media chorus declared that because Obama won simply because he wasn’t knocked out.
I’m glad the voters will eventually be allowed to express their own opinion.