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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)
  1. Scare ad linking Obama to Rev Wright Bill Ayers Willie Horton Darth Vader - end with nuclear explosion
  2. Embrace populist themes - fundamentals of economy are mad as hell and gonna kick the shit out of non-fundamentals
  3. Dump Sarah, get Lieberman Romney Cheney Biden Booker anyone
  4. Link Obama to G.W., maybe use the Obama-Cheney cousin thing
  5. Radical economic plan - eliminate the penny, reform earmarks
  6. Renounce Republican party, run as Independent Green Democrat
  7. New haircut - like Sarah's
  8. Visit Columbia again
  9. Challenge Obama to visit Columbia
  10. Challenge Obama to 5 10 100 1,000,000 town hall meetings (in Columbia)
  11. Revisit Obama plagiarism charges
  12. Work on timing for bear DNA paternity joke (LOL)
  13. Invade Spain
  14. Fly over Spanish airspace, get shot down and tortured
  15. Fire incompetent campaign staff, rehire previous incompetent campaign staff (shhhh, private)
  16. Bigger flag pin
  17. Sabotage left wing blogs by convincing them to prematurely release new software
This brainstorming session was approved by John McCain

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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.

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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.

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Ahhhh! My head has been chopped off.

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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).

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Ha! I think you should leave it like that. ;)

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I think that I will

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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!

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Ha. Done. I do appreciate the editing-after-submission functionality.

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Excellent!

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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?

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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.

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...you forgot to add to list: "emphasize that Obama is a flagrant, practicing heterosexual."

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I told ya, pal. Al's a friend of mine. The head shot is just a warning. Next we take the yellow toy.

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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. .. ;)

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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.

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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."

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It's a sure winner. Better even than the bear joke.

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