Keep the responses short and to the point.

[digiphaze]

I really feel when he limits his responses is when really drives a good point home to the average viewers.

Ron Paul is brilliant, unfortunately when he makes long statements, he tends to try and glob every point together into a huge paragraph. Its too much for most people to grasp in one saying and he will tend to overstep his words a few time.

Short concise answers is what will get people to understand his point.

 

[WilliamC]

+100

Be direct. Keep it simple. Short, concise sentences. No rambling. Speak, and be heard.

 

[mcgraw_wv]

I agree 100%

 

[Maz2331]

+1776.

The time to apply the KISS principle is now. And follow the rules of oratory:

1. Say what you're going to say.
2. Say it.
3. Say what you just said.

 

[Iconoclast777]

yea, i noticed in a few debates he got seemingly over excited, and stumbled over his words a bit...

his points were dead on, but i do agree it lessened the impact of what he said...

A little more concise wouldnt be a bad thing...

 

[SVS2K]

Hard to be concise and to the point when all these big issues are interconnected and the significance of any one issue requires a broad understanding of the rest of them also. QUITE the challenge!

Go Ron Paul!

 

[Enano1983]

I hear you on this. I hope he does more of that "let me see if I've got this straight" stuff. Direct and brilliant.
What we really need is "closed captioning for the intelligence impaired"

I feel good about this debate though. We've seen the media ask him baited questions only to have him cram the answers so far up their a$$es that they were forced to cut it out of the re-airings. We've seen them try to ignore him only to have him expose their candidate for a fraud when they were eventually forced to let him speak. There are now 4 candidates soon to be 3. It's going to be a lot harder to shortchange him on time this time around.

Go Ron!

 

[digiphaze]

I really feel for Dr Paul on some of the problems of keeping it simple.

Its kinda where your mind is going million miles an hour and your mouth can't keep up. And being on national television I'm sure doesn't help any.

Us younger people are sorta hyper active, we've grown up on video games and are taught to keep our mind active and on 10 different subjects at once.. When we encounter someone who talks slowly or drones on and on without a point to make, we tune them out incredibly fast.

I really think a lot of us fell in love with Dr. Paul because he provided us with enough information in one statement to keep our attention AND the stuff made sense. However it works the opposite for the older generation which consequently is the majority of the voters.

 

[Nic4Truth]

Absolutely agree. With all our $ maybe hes invested in some speech lessons. But, as he says "I may have my shortcomings, but the message of Freedom has none"!

 

[Pingwin]

The problem is - being concise and simple and smart has not driven home the point so far. He must do something different other than being the 'most polite and learned candidate' to lose. Maybe I'm missing the point. If we lose here - do we go home and have a moral victory in our bowl of Cheerios?

 

[mjp1025]

He HAS to keep it simple...RP's point when he threw the economics question at the Madman last debate probably went over the heads of the vast majority of the audience.