1) Put the four ads found at this site on the air. They are awesome!
http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com/index.html
2) Let the voters know you are a Christian. I respect not shoving it down their throat, it is a personal view and many of us agree it should stay that way. However, it is one part of who Dr. Paul is and should at least be mentioned. Unless Huckabee raises cash quickly, he will not be able to handle super tuesday. The Christian right did not like the other candidates (it took them months to find one and they finally settled for Huckabee). If we are in this for the long haul, going to a brokered convention, we need to prepare ourselves to pick up Huckabee's Christian right support once he is out of the race. (And possible cyphon off a bit of it before then).
3) Let the voters know about your military service. Thought the recent military ad was great. Keep it up. This will help build credibility that Dr. Paul can speak with authority when he says we shouldn't be in Iraq. Additionally, it can help grab some of the McCain voters once he's out.
4) Constructive criticism: Consider hiring a professional consultant to help with message delivery. The message is getting garbled (A), on several occasions gets side-tracked (B), and it has jumped around to several unrelated areas. (C). A message delivery consultant could help develop a concise message, and help to keep everybody on message. There is now enough info out there about Dr. Paul's in depth positions that once people hear the concise message they can easily find out more on their own.
A) Dr. Paul is not anti-war, he is pro peace; he is not opposed to all wars, only this war. Certainly, he will stand up and defend the country if we are attacked; but Iraq did not attack us.
B) Sometimes Dr. Paul will be giving an answer to one issue, and before you know it, will go into discussions about several other issues without finishing or driving home the main point of the first issue.
C) Dr. Paul might be right about the causes of the civil war, but we really don't need to spend a week debating it.
5) Issues:
A) Medicaid/Medicare: Right now it seems that people are only hearing that Dr. Paul wants to cut everything. This is not true. The way to show this is to point out that the Federal government, for their employees, uses a compilation of competing private health care plans. Everybody knows that government employees have job security, and get great benefits. If that system works so great for them, why not allow the same type of system to be implemented for the rest of us. [If there is a follow up pointing out that Dr. Paul doesn't want the federal government to pay for it; respond that several states have already begun doing this on their own, and they've done a great job with it, just look at Maine and what the legislature in Massachusetts put together.]
B) Fiscal Responsibility:
Inflation: I've heard him talk about this a lot, however, he seems to use words that aren't commonly known. Inflation tax needs to be explained in basic terms. [It robs from the poor and elderly, and gives to the rich. The life insurance policies and retirement savings are becoming worthless because the Fed keeps churning out hundreds of billions of dollars driving down the value of your savings.]
Debt: Don't hear this mentioned as often, but it should be. Just keep repeating "we need to balance the budget", over and over again, mixed in with "trillions of new debt in the past four years". If you want to really spice it up, bring in the entitlement debt and point out that it equates to 611,000 for every household in America. "That's 611,000 of debt for your family, 611,000 of debt for your neighbor on one side of you, 611,000 of debt for the neighbor on the other side of you, 611,000 of debt for your brother's family, 611,000 of debt for everybody's family; that's what they've done to us, and we need to make it stop. This cannot be allowed to continue."
Federal Reserve: I still havn't heard him point out how they get to print money, then loan it to the government, then sit back and collect the interest. He should point out "all the money that is being stolen by crooks and thieves at the fed and these big business politicians who support them. That's not their money, that's our money, and I'm the only candidate who will stand up to them and stop this fleecing of America."
C) Honesty, Integrity: Can always follow up the speech on crooks and thieves by pointing out that Dr. Paul is the only candidate who doesn't play with lobbyists, who doesn't take the government junkets, and who has a long record of honest consistency.
6) Don't attack McCain in New Hampshire. Instead, go after Romney. If McCain wins, he will fizzle out shortly thereafter, no money, not much support in future states. If Romney wins, he will get propelled forward, he does have money, and does have support in future states. If Romney loses, however, it will push him that much closer to the end of his road, if not completely out of the race....which we need.
7) Stay in it for the long haul, set yourself up to gather support from those who drop out, develop the message into less complex, digestible segments, and then stay on message repeating it over and over and over again.
http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com/index.html
2) Let the voters know you are a Christian. I respect not shoving it down their throat, it is a personal view and many of us agree it should stay that way. However, it is one part of who Dr. Paul is and should at least be mentioned. Unless Huckabee raises cash quickly, he will not be able to handle super tuesday. The Christian right did not like the other candidates (it took them months to find one and they finally settled for Huckabee). If we are in this for the long haul, going to a brokered convention, we need to prepare ourselves to pick up Huckabee's Christian right support once he is out of the race. (And possible cyphon off a bit of it before then).
3) Let the voters know about your military service. Thought the recent military ad was great. Keep it up. This will help build credibility that Dr. Paul can speak with authority when he says we shouldn't be in Iraq. Additionally, it can help grab some of the McCain voters once he's out.
4) Constructive criticism: Consider hiring a professional consultant to help with message delivery. The message is getting garbled (A), on several occasions gets side-tracked (B), and it has jumped around to several unrelated areas. (C). A message delivery consultant could help develop a concise message, and help to keep everybody on message. There is now enough info out there about Dr. Paul's in depth positions that once people hear the concise message they can easily find out more on their own.
A) Dr. Paul is not anti-war, he is pro peace; he is not opposed to all wars, only this war. Certainly, he will stand up and defend the country if we are attacked; but Iraq did not attack us.
B) Sometimes Dr. Paul will be giving an answer to one issue, and before you know it, will go into discussions about several other issues without finishing or driving home the main point of the first issue.
C) Dr. Paul might be right about the causes of the civil war, but we really don't need to spend a week debating it.
5) Issues:
A) Medicaid/Medicare: Right now it seems that people are only hearing that Dr. Paul wants to cut everything. This is not true. The way to show this is to point out that the Federal government, for their employees, uses a compilation of competing private health care plans. Everybody knows that government employees have job security, and get great benefits. If that system works so great for them, why not allow the same type of system to be implemented for the rest of us. [If there is a follow up pointing out that Dr. Paul doesn't want the federal government to pay for it; respond that several states have already begun doing this on their own, and they've done a great job with it, just look at Maine and what the legislature in Massachusetts put together.]
B) Fiscal Responsibility:
Inflation: I've heard him talk about this a lot, however, he seems to use words that aren't commonly known. Inflation tax needs to be explained in basic terms. [It robs from the poor and elderly, and gives to the rich. The life insurance policies and retirement savings are becoming worthless because the Fed keeps churning out hundreds of billions of dollars driving down the value of your savings.]
Debt: Don't hear this mentioned as often, but it should be. Just keep repeating "we need to balance the budget", over and over again, mixed in with "trillions of new debt in the past four years". If you want to really spice it up, bring in the entitlement debt and point out that it equates to 611,000 for every household in America. "That's 611,000 of debt for your family, 611,000 of debt for your neighbor on one side of you, 611,000 of debt for the neighbor on the other side of you, 611,000 of debt for your brother's family, 611,000 of debt for everybody's family; that's what they've done to us, and we need to make it stop. This cannot be allowed to continue."
Federal Reserve: I still havn't heard him point out how they get to print money, then loan it to the government, then sit back and collect the interest. He should point out "all the money that is being stolen by crooks and thieves at the fed and these big business politicians who support them. That's not their money, that's our money, and I'm the only candidate who will stand up to them and stop this fleecing of America."
C) Honesty, Integrity: Can always follow up the speech on crooks and thieves by pointing out that Dr. Paul is the only candidate who doesn't play with lobbyists, who doesn't take the government junkets, and who has a long record of honest consistency.
6) Don't attack McCain in New Hampshire. Instead, go after Romney. If McCain wins, he will fizzle out shortly thereafter, no money, not much support in future states. If Romney wins, he will get propelled forward, he does have money, and does have support in future states. If Romney loses, however, it will push him that much closer to the end of his road, if not completely out of the race....which we need.
7) Stay in it for the long haul, set yourself up to gather support from those who drop out, develop the message into less complex, digestible segments, and then stay on message repeating it over and over and over again.