Breaking: McCain Brainstorming Notes Leaked
John McCain's campaign may be facing an uphill battle, but he and his staff still have plenty of ideas according to notes from a campaign brainstorming session. The notes were leaked to major media outlets from a source close to John McCain who asked not to be identified for unidentified reasons:
Date: 10/13/08
Subject: How to win this thing - brainstorming
Participants: Me, Rick, Charlie, Steve (not Sarah)This brainstorming session was approved by John McCain
- Scare ad linking Obama to Rev Wright Bill Ayers Willie Horton Darth Vader - end with nuclear explosion
- Embrace populist themes - fundamentals of economy are mad as hell and gonna kick the shit out of non-fundamentals
- Dump Sarah, get Lieberman Romney Cheney Biden Booker anyone
- Link Obama to G.W., maybe use the Obama-Cheney cousin thing
- Radical economic plan - eliminate the penny, reform earmarks
- Renounce Republican party, run as Independent Green Democrat
- New haircut - like Sarah's
- Visit Columbia again
- Challenge Obama to visit Columbia
- Challenge Obama to 5 10 100 1,000,000 town hall meetings (in Columbia)
- Revisit Obama plagiarism charges
- Work on timing for bear DNA paternity joke (LOL)
- Invade Spain
- Fly over Spanish airspace, get shot down and tortured
- Fire incompetent campaign staff, rehire previous incompetent campaign staff (shhhh, private)
- Bigger flag pin
- Sabotage left wing blogs by convincing them to prematurely release new software
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Just a heads-up. Rec is broken and this list operates more like a recent reader's list for EC right now. Al is investigating. Just so you know.
October 14, 2008 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, therap. I'm sure that they were anxious to get the new features out, but why they would put out a major release with only 3 days of public beta testing a few weeks before the election is completely beyond me.
Awesome - the auto-signout bug is back.
October 14, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ahhhh! My head has been chopped off.
October 14, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Seeing as you lost your flashing shirt, I have removed my flashing hair avatar, out of respect.
No more flashing. I'm putting my trench coat into retirement.
Nice post. Rec'd (I think).
October 14, 2008 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha! I think you should leave it like that. ;)
October 14, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that I will
October 14, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Remember Super Tuesday? They had made changes the weekend before - changes which were promised to take no longer than 24 hours max.
I keep thinking it's sabotage. Perhaps you want to go in and edit your list - for that possibility!
October 14, 2008 10:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ha. Done. I do appreciate the editing-after-submission functionality.
October 14, 2008 10:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent!
October 14, 2008 10:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
LOL funny!
Re 12: Perhaps we could suggest he freshen up the joke by working in the harbor seal DNA thing.
Re 17: Exactly, WTF?
October 14, 2008 10:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Avatar advice--add blank white space around the image to make it square aspect. This software hates oblong. It can accept larger than 64 pix wide, too (mine is 134 square). Make it large --it will downsize to suit the thread, and upsize to suit profile page.
October 14, 2008 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
...you forgot to add to list: "emphasize that Obama is a flagrant, practicing heterosexual."
October 14, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I told ya, pal. Al's a friend of mine. The head shot is just a warning. Next we take the yellow toy.
October 14, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. Dr. ☠enghis had access to McCain's airbag storming session? No wonder he's riding that jackhammer.
I cannot believe your head's chopped off, Dr. ☠enghis. In the old TPM you looked like Clive Owen. .. ;)
October 14, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now you've gone too far and killed your cred. I don't know Clive Owen, he's not a friend of mine. Evainne, I am no Clive Owen.
October 14, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I particularly like the idea of revisiting those plagiarism charges. "That's not change you can believe in, my friends -- that's change you can xerox. Heh heh."
October 14, 2008 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a sure winner. Better even than the bear joke.
October 14, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink