How about having an young, inspiring kick-off speaker to introduce him at each stop?
A warm up act? Good grief. This is the presidency. The last thing we need in our candidates is more artifice. He is what he is, and frankly, I think the American public is ready for authenticity. The constantly shifting style personas we get from candidates trying to respond and appeal to everyone and everything are signs of weakness, not strength. The estimated 60% of Iowa caucus goers still undecided pretty muich speaks to the success of the pro handlers' efforts to package a persona that resonates.
It's not Fred that needs fixing. Responding to the false "lazy, slow-moving" memes legitimizes them. Fred needs to stays the hell away from such helpful advice. So, to your posed question, how can we begin to turn the common perception around? We can start by not repeating them under the guise of being helpful.
I’ve heard similar things from most of the posters. But...It’s not artifice to put your best foot forward. To clean up and make yourself as presentable as possible before you “go pick up your date.”
It is not the guise of help. I want the most conservative candidate possible elected. Fred is the best chance of that.
The biggest impediment to his election is the do nothing, change nothing attitude of his campaign and his supporters such as the posters here who seem to deny the reality about how the real world actually works.
Doing what he’s done, Fred has gone from about 20% down to about 10% in most states. And most of the posters here seem to want him to just continue the same campaign style that has produced that drop. It’s like a football team that does pretty well early in the game but later falls behind. Instead of making adjustments that will help them turn it around and win they inist on plowing forward with the same old game plan that is not working.