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mithridates
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 Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: Ron Paul blimp ready to take off |
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Yep, that's right, a blimp. The blimp's down payment has now been paid for and it'll be taking off on Monday.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=3965657&page=1
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Somewhere in an enormous hangar in North Carolina, enormous decals are being stuck to an enormous blimp.
"Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul," the 240,000-cubic-foot zeppelin will read on one side and "Ron Paul Revolution" on the other when it launches from Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday and begins its slow, 300-mile-per-day float up the Eastern Seaboard to Boston.
People in their cars and on park benches, going about their daily lives, are bound to say something like, "What the heck is that blimp doing up there? Who the heck is Ron Paul?"
And that's pretty much the idea.
For all his recent buzz, Paul remains unknown to most Americans and his libertarian scruples, which set him apart in the Republican Party as the only GOP presidential hopeful against the Iraq War, also make him a stranger to Democrats, many of whom embrace his anti-war stance, but dislike his views on issues like abortion.
Paul's 08 Bid Takes Flight
With any luck, the dirigible will be in the Washington, D.C., skyline sometime in the afternoon on Monday, although there could be some airspace issues in the greater Washington area.
The plan is to have it floating over Boston Harbor by the weekend of Dec. 15, where Paul supporters will reenact the Boston Tea Party and hold a large rally at Faneuil Hall. His online supporters have a fundraising effort, which coincides with the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. For more on that, check out Teaparty.com.
If nothing else, the blimp will be unique as a campaign tool and could get the Texas congressman some free attention in the "mainstream media" as his supporters like to call it.
Hiring a blimp at great expense and without any campaign coordination seems like it would be a first in the annals of American elections. But there are no records to be found on such things.
Launching an Independent Campaign
Like many of the more successful ventures of Paul's presidential campaign, the blimp has nothing to do directly with Ron Paul the candidate. The tea party rally, for instance, has some of the same organizers as the blimp enterprise. While Paul may go to Boston, neither he nor his campaign are helping plan the event.
But they will benefit from the millions that will likely be raised that day, just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses and three weeks before the New Hampshire primary, where Paul is considered to have his best shot.
As campaigners, Paul's disparate and spirited supporters, though political novices, have shown themselves to be both creative in pushing their candidate and adroit in finding ways around both the traditional media and campaign finance laws. |
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mithridates
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igotthisguitar
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Kuros
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Are you a Ron Paul fan? |
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igotthisguitar
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Why The Groundswell For Ron Paul?
Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
How to make sense of the Ron Paul revolution? What's behind the improbably successful (so far) presidential campaign of a 72-year-old 10-term Republican congressman from Texas who pines for the gold standard while drawing praise from another relic from the hyperinflationary 1970s, punk-rocker Johnny Rotten?
Now with about 5 percent (and climbing) support in polls of likely Republican voters, Paul set a one-day GOP record by raising $4.3 million on the Internet from 38,000 donors on Nov. 5 -- Guy Fawkes Day, the commemoration of a British anarchist who plotted to blow up Parliament and kill King James I in 1605.
Paul's campaign, which is three-quarters of the way to its goal of raising "$12 Million to Win" by Dec. 31, didn't even organize the fundraiser -- an independent-minded supporter did.
When a fierce Republican foe of the wars on drugs and terrorism is able, without really trying, to pull in a record haul of campaign cash on a day dedicated to an attempted regicide, it's clear that a new and potentially transformative force is growing in American politics.
CONT'D ...
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071207/OPINION01/712070304/1008 |
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mithridates
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
Are you a Ron Paul fan? |
Yep. I would also be happy (but somewhat less so) with Richardson, Biden or Obama in the White House. |
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igotthisguitar
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twg
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| I gotta hand it to his campaign guys. They came up with a pretty great logo for him. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| They didn't design it, as I understand. Some dude on the Ron Paul blogroll did. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Ron Paul blimp NOT ready for takeoff
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If you haven�t seen the Ron Paul blimp passing overhead lately, that�s because the launch was delayed. The blimp was supposed to take off today, but the banners that get stuck to the side of the blimp haven�t arrived yet, according to blimp coordinator Bryce Henderson. �[A] blimp with no message on it simply does not have the same effect,� Henderson wrote in an e-mail. |
The Rloveution is delayed. |
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mithridates
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twg
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| thepeel wrote: |
| They didn't design it, as I understand. Some dude on the Ron Paul blogroll did. |
The internet IS good for something after all! |
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mithridates
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:16 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
Ron Paul blimp NOT ready for takeoff
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If you haven�t seen the Ron Paul blimp passing overhead lately, that�s because the launch was delayed. The blimp was supposed to take off today, but the banners that get stuck to the side of the blimp haven�t arrived yet, according to blimp coordinator Bryce Henderson. �[A] blimp with no message on it simply does not have the same effect,� Henderson wrote in an e-mail. |
The Rloveution is delayed. |
Up it goes:
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igotthisguitar
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Gunther
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| I think it's a UFO... hehe... haha... |
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