While running the worst campaign for President in the history of campaigns for President, John McCain made one thing very clear - He knew how to get Osama bin Laden. He just wouldn't tell anyone unless he was elected President.

John McCain says in almost every stump speech that he knows how to capture Osama bin Laden and that he’d follow the al Qaeda leader to the “Gates of Hell.”

So Washington Wire was wondering, what does McCain know that President Bush and the Pentagon don’t about how to sweep up America’s most elusive enemy.

“One thing I will not do is telegraph my punches. Osama bin Laden will be the last to know,” he said today while riding on the back of his bus between Florida events. In other words: he’s not telling. Why not share his strategy with the current occupant of the White House? “Because I have my own ideas and it would require implementation of certain policies and procedures that only as the president of the United States can be taken.”

Now that elite American forces have put a bullet in bin Laden's head and dumped his body at sea, we will see if McCain is finally ready to share his plan with the rest of America, or if following bin Laden to the "Gates of Hell"meant a "mansion in Sedona. Maybe McCain will talk about it this coming weekend on his regularly scheduled visit to "Meet the Press."

--WKW

Crossposted at William K. Wolfrum Chronicles