• February 13, 2012
  • RAND PAUL GIVES THE PAULTARDS THEIR CUE: Watch out, Kentucky: “Rand is open to recycling other ideas, too. ‘We love the idea of the blimp,’ he tells us. ‘They can bring the blimp back, by all means.’” NOTED. [US News, Ron Paul Forums]

{ 31 comments }

Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts! August 11, 2009 at 4:01 pm

Meh. Wake me when they get the Rand Paul cat.

magic titty August 11, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Jesus Christ, Newell. You lose a bet? Why are you reading the RonPaul forums?

Don Juanquete August 11, 2009 at 4:07 pm

It takes $400K/month to maintain the blimp. All that gold weight must be kind of hard on the poor old blimp.

TGY August 11, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Too bad Liz Glover jumped ship.

facehead August 11, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Wonkette needs a blimp, or at least action figures (sans commie kung-fu grip).

SayItWithWookies August 11, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Any type of gasbag would be appropriate, really.

drrty martini August 11, 2009 at 4:12 pm

They’re such a charmingly excitable group of people.

Extemporanus August 11, 2009 at 4:20 pm

BREAKING: Pusillanimous Pete the Pistol-Packing Patriotic Paultard will be on “Hardball” this afternoon.

ManchuCandidate August 11, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Hmmmm… Kentucky. Land of smoky mountains which have lots of clouds and precipitation. Yeah, a blimp could fly pretty well in there and be seen on the ground. Probably not end well when a hillbilly shoots the damned thing down.

“Ma/Sis! I gots me an air whale!”

Gopherit August 11, 2009 at 4:27 pm

PLEASE< PLEASE, PLEASE!!!! Bring back the BLIMP!!!!

Accordion-o-rama August 11, 2009 at 4:32 pm

I vote for bringing back phlogiston.

Don Juanquete August 11, 2009 at 4:38 pm

Blimp-man Jerry Collette is now a citizen of Lakotah, which already seceded from the United States:

… Means was traveling with an attache, Lakotah’s volunteer attorney general, Jerry Collette. A Libertarian activist and a paralegal who recently emigrated to Lakotah from his longtime home in North Carolina, Collette is most renowned for the intricate, loopholing legal work he did last winter to enable the supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul to fly a campaign blimp up and down the East Coast. Ethnically French-Canadian, Collette is 56 years old, with long gray hair and a shaggy gray beard. In contrast to Means, he is a meager physical presence — slender and only 5-foot-4. On this road trip, as Means luxuriated on the hotel’s single queen bed, Collette was sleeping on the floor. “I’m a guerrilla,” he explained, “and if you’re a guerrilla, you just don’t grumble about little discomforts.”

facehead August 11, 2009 at 4:40 pm

[re=383487]Accordion-o-rama[/re]: +1

[re=383478]Gopherit[/re]: +1

Shorts is way more animated when the Paultards have a blimp.

Roger3815 August 11, 2009 at 4:40 pm

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here in Florence (KY), we are already overrun with Paultards. There has to be something you can do to stop him before Kentucky is destroyed.

Extemporanus August 11, 2009 at 4:43 pm

[re=383471]ManchuCandidate[/re]: “Oh, the huge manatee!”

Simba B August 11, 2009 at 4:45 pm

Ron Paul’s blimp was more of a national PR stunt and it did generate about 4 times what we paid for it in publicity.

Really now.

qwerty42 August 11, 2009 at 4:48 pm

[re=383478]Gopherit[/re]: PLEASE< PLEASE, PLEASE!!!! Bring back the BLIMP!!!!
oh god yes. pleaseopleaseopleaseoplease

glamourdammerung August 11, 2009 at 5:15 pm

Are they going to pay the blimp people this time?

glamourdammerung August 11, 2009 at 5:25 pm

Well, the free market took care of Kent Snyder. So any bets on which sucker runs this campaign?

hobospacejunkie August 11, 2009 at 5:46 pm

[re=383536]glamourdammerung[/re]: Kent Brockman?

Cicada August 11, 2009 at 5:47 pm

[re=383499]Roger3815[/re]: Really? You want to save Kentucky?

LittlePig August 11, 2009 at 6:01 pm

[re=383500]Extemporanus[/re]: Most impressive. Lakehurst NAS salutes you.

OffTheRecord August 11, 2009 at 6:11 pm

YES! YES! A thousand times yes! From this day forth my primary purpose in life will be to monitor the skies of Louisville for the Paultard blimp.

Lionel Hutz Esq. August 11, 2009 at 6:44 pm

Suspended under a twilight canopy
We’ll search the clouds for a star to guide us
If by some chance you find yourself loving me
We’ll find a cloud to hide us
We’ll keep the moon beside us
Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon
Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon
If you’ll hold my hand we’ll chase your dream across the sky
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
Balloon…
Up, up, and away…..

Rev. Peter Lemonjello August 11, 2009 at 9:01 pm

Remember this freak from the last GOP primary cycle?

She’s back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4MPRFdfzcw

I miss The Great Paultard Warz.

pattonbt August 12, 2009 at 12:59 am

So is General Nick Parr (Farr, or whatever his name is / was) in retirement? Are we going to be needing to recall him to duty soon?

zhubajie August 12, 2009 at 7:36 am

[re=383495]Don Juanquete[/re]: He hasn’t spent a winter there yet! For those of you who haven’t see the map, it’s basically the Northern Great Plains, N. & S. Dakota, Nebraska, etc.

Zhu Bajie

zhubajie August 12, 2009 at 7:39 am

[re=383471]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Kentucky’s main crop is pot, main LEGAL crop, tobacco. The hillbilly pot growers might well not like a spy blimp over-head.

On the other hand, the blimps are based in central Ohio, which is not far away.

Zhu Bajie

zhubajie August 12, 2009 at 7:40 am

[re=383499]Roger3815[/re]: Tell the Baptists that Libertarians are atheists.

Zhu Bajie

zhubajie August 12, 2009 at 7:43 am

If they could start a regular passenger blimp service as an alternative to trains/cars, that might actually be a good thing. But I suppose asking Libertarians to co-operate on something practical is like asking cats to co-operate.

Zhu Bajie

norbizness August 12, 2009 at 9:17 am

Blimp? Check
Darts? Check
Bruce Dern? Check
2010 Super Bowl in an un-domed stadium? Check

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