Former McCain senior strategist Mike Murphy offers his advice to John McCain tonight:

McCain’s once formidable "brand" has been so damaged by his campaign that his real problem isn’t creating more doubts about Obama, it is erasing the many doubts voters now have about him. Tonight is his last unfiltered chance to repair that damage.

McCain should borrow a technique from the Palin playbook and look mostly into the camera, directly addressing the home audience. He should imply a gentle mea culpa; the stakes for America are so high and this election is so important that he found himself doing things to win it that he has spent his political life fighting against.

And then monkeys will fly out of his butt.

Na. Ga. Ha. Pa.