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RAND PAUL BLIMP

  • 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]


4:00 PM on Tue August 11 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts! says at 4:01 pm, August 11th, 2009

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

  2. magic titty says at 4:03 pm, August 11th, 2009

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

  3. Don Juanquete says at 4:07 pm, August 11th, 2009

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

  4. Too bad Liz Glover jumped ship.

  5. facehead says at 4:07 pm, August 11th, 2009

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

  6. SayItWithWookies says at 4:08 pm, August 11th, 2009

    Any type of gasbag would be appropriate, really.

  7. drrty martini says at 4:12 pm, August 11th, 2009

    They’re such a charmingly excitable group of people.

  8. Extemporanus says at 4:20 pm, August 11th, 2009

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

  9. ManchuCandidate says at 4:22 pm, August 11th, 2009

    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!”

  10. Gopherit says at 4:27 pm, August 11th, 2009

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

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

    I vote for bringing back phlogiston.

  12. Don Juanquete says at 4:38 pm, August 11th, 2009

    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.”

  13. facehead says at 4:40 pm, August 11th, 2009

    Accordion-o-rama: +1

    Gopherit: +1

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

  14. Roger3815 says at 4:40 pm, August 11th, 2009

    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.

  15. Extemporanus says at 4:43 pm, August 11th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: “Oh, the huge manatee!”

  16. Simba B says at 4:45 pm, August 11th, 2009

    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.

  17. qwerty42 says at 4:48 pm, August 11th, 2009

    Gopherit: PLEASE< PLEASE, PLEASE!!!! Bring back the BLIMP!!!!
    oh god yes. pleaseopleaseopleaseoplease

  18. glamourdammerung says at 5:15 pm, August 11th, 2009

    Are they going to pay the blimp people this time?

  19. glamourdammerung says at 5:25 pm, August 11th, 2009

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

  20. hobospacejunkie says at 5:46 pm, August 11th, 2009

    glamourdammerung: Kent Brockman?

  21. Roger3815: Really? You want to save Kentucky?

  22. LittlePig says at 6:01 pm, August 11th, 2009

    Extemporanus: Most impressive. Lakehurst NAS salutes you.

  23. OffTheRecord says at 6:11 pm, August 11th, 2009

    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.

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

    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…..

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

    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.

  26. pattonbt says at 12:59 am, August 12th, 2009

    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?

  27. zhubajie says at 7:36 am, August 12th, 2009

    Don Juanquete: 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

  28. zhubajie says at 7:39 am, August 12th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: 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

  29. zhubajie says at 7:40 am, August 12th, 2009

    Roger3815: Tell the Baptists that Libertarians are atheists.

    Zhu Bajie

  30. zhubajie says at 7:43 am, August 12th, 2009

    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

  31. norbizness says at 9:17 am, August 12th, 2009

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

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