After Iowa jolted me to the reality that Ron Paul may not win I decided to take a good look at why he's not polling higher and getting more respect. Tonight's debate was very telling.
First of all, RP needs to be more assertive. All the other candidates were fighting for airtime and getting their points across. This makes them look like strong leaders. RP was getting cut-off from the others and conceding to them. He wasn't being forceful enough to be heard. I know that most of you will say it's because he's too polite blah blah blah, but if you want to get the message across you have to speak up! When you let others have the last word every time it weakens your position.
When he did have time to speak, his message wasn't clear or simple. I have studied economics and monetary policy and trust me the average person hates that stuff. Even when they hear it they tune it out like most of my classmates who were forced to take macroeconomics. He needs to simplify the message and hit home points that will stick in people's minds. Also, his messages were too short, he had plenty of time to talk but he would only talk for 30 seconds. It was kind of akward because the moderator was expecting more but RP was done.
Next, he stumbled a lot of his sentences. It was hard to listen to him because he made too many mistakes (maybe he wasn't feeling well). Maybe he needs a speech coach to help me get rid of the fillers (ahhhh's, ummmm's, etc.). Also his posture needs to improve and he needs to stop fiddling with the pen. COMMUNICATION IS 80% BODY LANGUAGE.
Finally I can't recall any messages of hope from him tonight!! It's great he's giving analysis on why things are happening (i.e. foreign policy), but where are the solutions? If I remember the final question was about gas prices or something, and he's talking about how gas has stayed in terms of gold, and it's the dollar that's losing value, that's all well and good, but what are you going to do about it? He didn't mention anything about a solution or a message of hope.
So to sum it up, RP needs to be more assertive, better posture, appear more confident, and not screw up his words so much. I know a lot of you don't want to hear this, but I'm giving an analysis of what I saw tonight. The official campaign needs to look at this and fix it, this isn't some backwater election, it's a national one and they need professionalism.
So who "won"?
Best performance - 9iu11iani - as much as I hate this guy, he's very articulate and they way he laid out his message (tone/content) I can see a lot of sheeple being convinced.
Worst Performance - Thompson - honestly this guy needs to go to a retirement home and sleep the rest of life away. He just comes off as lazy and apathetic.
Most Entertaining - McCain - He got Romney with quite a few zingers.
We need to be real and being critical will only help us improve and increase our chances.
The original title for this thread was : A Real analysis of how RP did.. not blind fanboyism
The mods changed it on me. by fanboyism I meant group think where we don't analyze the situation and blindly praise Ron Paul.
First of all, RP needs to be more assertive. All the other candidates were fighting for airtime and getting their points across. This makes them look like strong leaders. RP was getting cut-off from the others and conceding to them. He wasn't being forceful enough to be heard. I know that most of you will say it's because he's too polite blah blah blah, but if you want to get the message across you have to speak up! When you let others have the last word every time it weakens your position.
When he did have time to speak, his message wasn't clear or simple. I have studied economics and monetary policy and trust me the average person hates that stuff. Even when they hear it they tune it out like most of my classmates who were forced to take macroeconomics. He needs to simplify the message and hit home points that will stick in people's minds. Also, his messages were too short, he had plenty of time to talk but he would only talk for 30 seconds. It was kind of akward because the moderator was expecting more but RP was done.
Next, he stumbled a lot of his sentences. It was hard to listen to him because he made too many mistakes (maybe he wasn't feeling well). Maybe he needs a speech coach to help me get rid of the fillers (ahhhh's, ummmm's, etc.). Also his posture needs to improve and he needs to stop fiddling with the pen. COMMUNICATION IS 80% BODY LANGUAGE.
Finally I can't recall any messages of hope from him tonight!! It's great he's giving analysis on why things are happening (i.e. foreign policy), but where are the solutions? If I remember the final question was about gas prices or something, and he's talking about how gas has stayed in terms of gold, and it's the dollar that's losing value, that's all well and good, but what are you going to do about it? He didn't mention anything about a solution or a message of hope.
So to sum it up, RP needs to be more assertive, better posture, appear more confident, and not screw up his words so much. I know a lot of you don't want to hear this, but I'm giving an analysis of what I saw tonight. The official campaign needs to look at this and fix it, this isn't some backwater election, it's a national one and they need professionalism.
So who "won"?
Best performance - 9iu11iani - as much as I hate this guy, he's very articulate and they way he laid out his message (tone/content) I can see a lot of sheeple being convinced.
Worst Performance - Thompson - honestly this guy needs to go to a retirement home and sleep the rest of life away. He just comes off as lazy and apathetic.
Most Entertaining - McCain - He got Romney with quite a few zingers.
We need to be real and being critical will only help us improve and increase our chances.
The original title for this thread was : A Real analysis of how RP did.. not blind fanboyism
The mods changed it on me. by fanboyism I meant group think where we don't analyze the situation and blindly praise Ron Paul.
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I smell a troll.
