Ron Paul Maine Town Hall Live Stream-(PACKED!)

[JimInNY]

i disagree. the Q&A stuff is so time consuming, I think an hour on lesson works better. if people have an in-depth question the information is alreay available if they really care. this gets rid of the setup-prone and time-consuming Q&A. I think the people that take a photo with him and shake his hand are more likely to show up to caucus for him than if they didn't get that opportunity.

I don't think it should be called a Town Hall then. Call it a stump speech. I think people going to a Town Hall expect to be able to ask questions and get answers, I would be disappointed if I were an undecided.

 

[ryanmkeisling]

I don't think it should be called a Town Hall then. Call it a stump speech. I think people going to a Town Hall expect to be able to ask questions and get answers, I would be disappointed if I were an undecided.

People in NH got QandA's.

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

I don't think it should be called a Town Hall then. Call it a stump speech. I think people going to a Town Hall expect to be able to ask questions and get answers, I would be disappointed if I were an undecided.

Yes.

I have a question for those who saw the 2 earlier "town halls". Did they expand the q&a portions compared to previous "town halls" like I saw on cspan in NH? Because with what I saw in NH, the stump speech to q&a ratio was way out of whack with very little q&a. I really think Ron shines when forced to think down different paths and delve deeply and slowly, but for some reason somebody's afraid to open the door to this and its never going to happen and we'll never know what would have happened if Ron had gotten the chance to give America a full mega-dose of his mind.

 

[georgiaboy]

I would love love love if the campaign arranged a nationally televised townhall for Ron Paul where he gives a speech for 30 mins, then has 90 mins of Q&A. Have it on CSPAN, widely advertised, have tweeted questions, call-ins, live audience questions, youtubed questions.

Ron Paul, Answers for America.

 

[specsaregood]

I don't think it should be called a Town Hall then. Call it a stump speech. I think people going to a Town Hall expect to be able to ask questions and get answers, I would be disappointed if I were an undecided.

That's fine. Don't call them that. What would you call them then?

From a #'s standpoint, the photo/handshake will get more votes.
1. You spend 5 minutes answering some question to handle the one pet-issue.
--Do you prescreen the questions? You'll get flak for that. If you don't pre-screen then you waste a lot of time answering questions that could have been answered in 2 minutes of web searching or he's answerd a thousand times.
2. You spend that 5 minutes taking photos and shaking hands and getting a high return of actual caucus goers.

 

[dancjm]

is there a toob?

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

That's fine. Don't call them that. What would you call them then?

From a #'s standpoint, the photo/handshake will get more votes.
1. You spend 5 minutes answering some question to handle the one pet-issue.
--Do you prescreen the questions? You'll get flak for that. If you don't pre-screen then you waste a lot of time answering questions that could have been answered in 2 minutes of web searching or he's answerd a thousand times.
2. You spend that 5 minutes taking photos and shaking hands and getting a high return of actual caucus goers.

If he's got super-stamina and can do it fine. But at the expense of never refuting in detail the bogus claims such as Ron wanting to shut down social security over night? He could sit down and calmly deal with all of that instead.

We all see the stats after the debates on the speaking times that the candidates get. I'd like to see today's stats on Ron's time spent on stump speeching vs. q&a's vs. follow up q&a's vs. autographs&pictures. I contend if he gives tons of time to q&a's and especially follow up q&a's, then all sorts of great things will happen. It will force him to tell us what he really thinks. With authoritarian crooked politicians this would never work, but with an honest libertarian, its the only thing that will work.

The long stump speeches that touch too much on the surface on too many issues is way too high level and will not convince enough young and independent voters to vote for us.

There's also something about the formality and disconnectedness between the speaker and the audience of the stump speeches compared to a more honest and personal impression that comes from a dialog between 2 people.

 

[rp713]

video is here. http://www.sunjournal.com/multimedia/video

 

[Srg1]

looks like he's holding a cigarette, LMAO

According to o'reilly it was a joint laced with heroin

 

[donnay]

oh dear... not blowback.. dont talk about 9/11. OMG not 9/11

Why not? We got into these messes today due to the ineptness of government from the get-go!!