NEVER repeat an accusation

[hawks4ronpaul]

NEVER repeat an accusation when answering an accusation.

RP makes this mistake too often. He even attacks himself by wasting his own response time to repeat the smear, "You say I'm...."

For instance:

Even when he intellectually rebuts a racism charge, the average listener's takeaway is:

"Ron Paul...racist...racism...racist...racist."

Listeners even tend to drop/forget the "not" or "anti" of denials and retain unwanted word associations.

Paul's answer and your answer should avoid the r-word so that the listener's memory of word association is:

"Ron Paul...equality...equal rights...individualism...protect minorities...protect liberty."

Maximize positive word association.

This applies to any topic (isolationist, cut-and-run, etc.).

Reject the enemies' "frame" and substitute your own.


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[noztnac]

You are right. He needs to do a week long course with Derren Brown on NLP.

[rpfan2008]

....word association is:

"Ron Paul...equality...equal rights...individualism...protect minorities...protect liberty."

Maximize positive word association.




http://hawks4ronpaul.blogspot.com/

very good point

[DrCap]

In psychology there has long been a tenet that when a person says 'not' it really means they do or at least maybe do. So I agree, positive word associations are much better.
When a person asks me 'you're angry at me.' I won't respond 'no, I'm not angry' since that would imply I was angry. Instead I might say 'I'm disappointed' or something like that, or 'I am okay with your decision' etc.

[Myerz]

CALL HQ....they were asking for constructive criticism!

[gaazn]

his explanation that constitutionists are for individual rights and not collective rights like civil rights won't make sense to most people. all he needs to say is that he is wants to protect rights for all individuals and leave it at that.

[cien750hp]

he's said something before, where they said youre the anti candidate. anti-war anti-federal reserve anti-department of education/homeladn security/energy anti-irs etc

and he said no im pro-personal liberty pro-peace pro-state rights pro-constitution pro-sound money

[pacelli]

NEVER repeat an accusation when answering an accusation.

RP makes this mistake too often. He even attacks himself by wasting his own response time to repeat the smear, "You say I'm...."

For instance:

Even when he intellectually rebuts a racism charge, the average listener's takeaway is:

"Ron Paul...racist...racism...racist...racist."

Listeners even tend to drop/forget the "not" or "anti" of denials and retain unwanted word associations.

Paul's answer and your answer should avoid the r-word so that the listener's memory of word association is:

"Ron Paul...equality...equal rights...individualism...protect minorities...protect liberty."

Maximize positive word association.

This applies to any topic (isolationist, cut-and-run, etc.).

Reject the enemies' "frame" and substitute your own.


http://hawks4ronpaul.blogspot.com/

+1 I support that tactic.

[AtomiC]

Great idea hawks, send that in to HQ.

[hawks4ronpaul]

he's said something before, where they said youre the anti candidate. anti-war anti-federal reserve anti-department of education/homeladn security/energy anti-irs etc

and he said no im pro-personal liberty pro-peace pro-state rights pro-constitution pro-sound money

Ironically, even in those answers, he spent half the time repeating the negatives instead of doubling the number of positive words.



http://hawks4ronpaul.blogspot.com/

[davidhperry]

Great idea hawks, send that in to HQ.

Yeah, this is a great point. I cringe when I see a youtube video with a title along the lines of: "Ron Paul is not a racist" because, to the uninformed viewer, that title could imply that Ron Paul is a racist. Maybe it's a nitpick, but I'd rather see the title be something long the lines of: "Ron Paul stands for freedom" or something.

[cheese]

good advice. Have you been watching an 87 minute videos posted recently?

[austin356]

qft

[Drknows]

Yeah, this is a great point. I cringe when I see a youtube video with a title along the lines of: "Ron Paul is not a racist" because, to the uninformed viewer, that title could imply that Ron Paul is a racist. Maybe it's a nitpick, but I'd rather see the title be something long the lines of: "Ron Paul stands for freedom" or something.

Tell me about it. I cringed for the past two days looking at the front page of youtube.

Ron Paul's Shocking Statements On CNN





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[Karsten]

I think this advice is applicable to US, TO!! Why the hell are WE repeating this story over and over again???? I've heard it more from these forms than anywhere else. We need to bury this stupid story, and move on to other things.

[Mark]

CALL HQ....they were asking for constructive criticism!

No need to call, there's a forum for that now.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=212

[Nicketas]

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[Nicketas]

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[fabijo]

You are right. He needs to do a week long course with Derren Brown on NLP.

+100

We should all be studying this.