Burning shirts is not the only activity YAF members have done to show their disapproval of Presidential candidates. In 2006 when Kentucky YAF Chair Morgan Wilkins was an intern for the College Republican National Committee she spoke about a mock assassination game to recruit new College Republicans. According to the Michigan Daily:

"Her other ideas include an event called "Fun with Guns," in which young Republicans would use a BB gun or paintball gun to shoot cardboard cut-outs of Democratic leaders such as Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) Wilkin's idea of mock assassinations of a a former Democratic candidate and a future candidate was not well received in the political establishment. Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean and the Michigan Democratic Party called on Republican Chair Ken Mehlman to denounce Wilkins. Mehlman did denounce her, and she was fired from her internship.

The Leadership Institute teaches the same principle. Controlled controversy -- making your point in a manner so bombastic that your opponents blow their cool -- is a Blackwell specialty. Before the 2004 Republican Convention, the conservative elder personally went to a drugstore and bought little pink heart stickers, bandages and purple nail polish. At home, he made the "Purple Heart Band-Aids" that he later distributed in Madison Square Garden to mock John Kerry's war wounds. From Blackwell's perspective, the Kerry camp's outrage at the gag was a tactical disaster. Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe, Blackwell says, kept the story alive for days by "running around like a chicken with its head cut off."

...""The moral is that if it's your tail that's being clipped, you want it clipped once," concludes Blackwell. "But if you get a chance to clip your opponent's tail, clip that puppy as often as you can."