What the hell? Why is that bald eagle, our national symbol, fleeing Ron Paul on his campaign website’s logo? Is it because Ron Paul wants to take away the federal environmental regulations that protect the eagle from extinction? Or maybe we’re looking at this wrong. Is the bird defecating out this logo as he flies on by? Wait a second, did Ron Paul just steal that swoosh thing from Mitt Romney, who, in fact, originally stole it from Aquafresh?
Yep.
Also, why are Paul and his bird in black and white? Are they running together on a ticket against Kennedy and Johnson? Paul’s people were able to find photos of their boss and a bald eagle that were in color, right? [Ron Paul]
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Let the Eagle Soar
Let the Paul Rand bore.
That should say "Let the Rand Paul bore", Paul Rand was a brilliant industrial designer who designed the IBM logo.
If Paul was in color he would look deader than he already looks.
He's not in color?
Maybe Paul's handlers know that color scares his core constituency
Unless it's green and in their pockets.
The swooshes are silly looking. Four out of five dentists agree that they wouldn't vote for these two ass clowns.
Wait, the fifth dentist just caved.
he was an unaccredited dentist, anyway.
No dentist lawyers would give up those precious gold filled freedoms!
That fifth dentist can't vote. He is too busy making campaign videos for Hillary 2012.
And filing birther lawsuits against the Army.
Orly?
Do you have any idea how much color copies cost at the Docu-Copy?
The eagle dropped a red, white, and blue shit-bomb on the A.
The olds suck at Photoshop.
Needs more gold, and DDT.
The Eagle should be defecating krugerrands and holding a sign saying "End The Fed"
I get the symbolism of the eagle, but what's with the senile old man on the other side.
Medicare reform.
That's his way of telling his supporters, "I'm you."
"I'm you, if you're a genial-looking alzheimer's patient who looks a bit like he's lost his car keys but doesn't care because he can't remember where he parked the car anyway"
i am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together
Restore America Now. RAN?
Vote Ron Paul. Also, RAN!
why not just go all out and say, "restore America now, dammit." that's what he's thinking.
Restore America is like restoring the Ipod or the Imac and everything is deleted and the system starts from the scratch. All your personal debt, gone with the wind, like the eagle!
What the fuck? Ever had something restored? I had my old convertible restored about 3 years ago, set me back 50K. What's it worth on the open market, you ask? About 45K. I've had it since 1976 and don't plan to sell it, but still. There's no way we can afford to Restore America Now, especially not to showroom condition.
Cheaper to get a can of New Country Smell and spray it around the Rust Belt.
Yes RAN – he's a big fan of Akira Kurosawa. You have a problem with that?
Taking joy in the fact that some of Rand Paul's inheritance was spent on this piece of shit.
He will be passing down something more precious than gold, he will leaving Rand a fully articulated douche bag philosophy.
Taste the Rainbow!
Hmm, tastes like guano.
Guano Libel!
Before I even clicked the "1 reply" link, I knew it was you.
Ahhh, reliability.
Paul looks remarkably like Ayn Rand — only without the moustache.
or the rabid atheism…
Eagle shrugged.
https://picasaweb.google.com/11400799981044075510...
Could someone tell Ron that political ads now come in color. Also, talkies.
Ron Paul is a black and white candidate in a full color world.
I guess the B&W is meant to appeal to the olds….
People who remember the Gold Standard.
Ron Paul is so old, he can't fully open his eyes.
Scotch tape on the eyelids works nicely.
He also can't be convinced to look at the camera. He's afraid it's going to steal his soul.
Maybe he's actually Asian?
Sharron Angle can't tell! She's that…color-blind!!!
Mr. Magoo against the Federal Reserve System.
That's not an Angry Bird, just a subliminal message to get the kidz vote?
Kids, can you find two turds in the top picture?
I can find a lot more than two…
Due to Wonkette's recent troubles I'm not going to make any (more) comments about Ron Paul's 'special son', Rand.
Randtard?
I agree. Mentally Challenged may suffice.
And the terminology will dumfound the Re..Re…Re..publican'ts.
Sorry, old habits.
#Randscrew!
#letsnot
I can't wait for the return of the Paultard Krugerrand!
The minter went to prison, so that is going to be a while.
From the Franklin Mint? Order before midnight and you'll get a free one?
Will this do?
Y NO BLIMP?
The eagle burst it accidentally on the way by. The remnants are draped over the A.
Let the Eagle Snore.
Genius
Black-and-white exemplifies Ron Paul's colorblind ethos, since he doesn't see the petty differences such as race that divide us. As a libertarian, he lets his followers do that for themselves.
Today, we are all that eagle.
Restore Pleasantville Now.
Restore America Now (to 1774).
B&W = I'm serious about this!
Restore America to where it was before those dag nabbit abolitionists and women's suffragists messed the dang thing up!
That actually is the goal of some group using the "Restore America Now" slogan – bring the U.S. back to the "Constitutional" form of government it had prior to 1860.
I'm not sure what their connection is with the Paultards – the websites are too incoherent for me to follow – but I'll bet there's considerable overlap.
Looks like an ad for Hemorrhoids cream.
Wait until you kids get excited by his radio address.
I'm boning up on my morse code in breathless anticipation.
He's hoping to get some spots on the Amos n Andy show.
Ah, but the B & W doesn't just appeal to the olds. Anybody over about 20 is going to have some familiarity with B & W photography–and are likely to reminisce about it, imbuing the B & W thing with the comfortable nostalgia of "the old days."
It gives Dr. Congressman Tyrannical Overlord Ron Paul a pastiche of safety, reliability, and helps to defuse his batshit crazy image. "He's OK, voters. He remembers the time before ColorTV, and cheap color printing." He'll make you feel safe the way you felt when you were too young to know what a dangerous shithole planet Earth really is. He's safe, reliable, tried true and tested, just like Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Eisenhower, and the whole lot of them.
It's like the Renaissance Festival. Everybody 'remembers' the cool costumes, but not the human waste in the streets.
Bring out yer dead!
Yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
Well yes of course that goes without saying but other than roads and sanitation what have the Roman's ever done for us?
Everybody loves 'the good old days,' except for people who actually lived through them.
I remember sitting with my father, watching Happy Days on TV. I asked him what the 50's were like. He mentioned several economic downturns, labor unrest, McCarthyis, racism and segregation. I–being young–asked him if he ever saw a girl in a poodle skirt. He–always patient–explained again, and finally said he never noticed, because he was busy working and trying to survive. I dropped the subject and looked at Richie Cunningham, who I thought was cute.
Nostalgia is created by fear of the future and early onset Alzheimers. Ron Paul is just trying to tap into that, to get him above whatever miserable percentage he's polling at right now.
Yes those fabulous fifties, with lynchings still common in the south, and a peace time draft! These paultards and their nostalgia for an age that never really existed are scary as all hell.
Police riots, lynchings, and white power mobs just don't look good in color.
You remind me the first time I heard Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit. I was driving and had to stop the car.
Before my time, but those that know sometimes reminisce about scrambling under their schoolroom desks in preparation for the big bang they all lived in fear of…must have been good times.
"Those were simpler times," mom says.
Yes they were, mom, but Grandpa had to teach meat-cutting(!) in prisons to earn money and bring some meat home. Your parents cried tears of joy when WWII was over, and your recently deployed brother could come home.
Yes, life was simpler for white protestants.
But even mom knows the Repubs are full of shit when they wax nostalgic.
Simply amazing
Needs more John Ashcroft.
Hey Mitt, Rick Perry called, he wants his hair back.
I can't wait for the exciting new self posted You Tube testimonials all his supporters are going to put up.
Did the Paultard art department Photoshop™ the head of a bald eagle on the wings of a California condor to get bigger wings. Bigger wings = best wings? Is Ron Paul giving America the bird with a bald vulture? Do we have any birders who could confirm?
Owly Owly in free. Owly Owly in free.
He had to go with "Restore America Now" because his preferred "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage" had already been used.
Tippecanoe and Tyler too?
54 40 or fight!
Geritol and Liberty in place of fiat currency!
A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, as long as you bought it yourself and agree not to share.
As long as that chicken came from an agri-business syndicate, and the car is a gas-guzzling, American made monstrosity.
It's in black & white because, well you know what happens when you let the coloreds in….
Romney looks like that guy (the capitan) on "How I met your mother" where they show the top psychopathic face, and then the kinder gentler benevolent bottom face.
Romney top bottom?
Ron Paul should have a turkey vulture on his damn ads. It would look a lot more believable than the eagle.
The eagle's actually been enslaved to pull an aerial banner. I can hardly wait until it lands atop the blimb, all razor sharp claws fully extended.
I've trained my eagle to slash truck tires. I stand by in case my leatherman backup is needed.
It's obvious the used the same "not gay" graphic designer. The Repubs screw -up all visuals because of their fear of associating with "the gays"
Also too, after checking the site his color pics make him look 110 years young.
Oops, they left out a small bit:
"Restore 1880's America Now"
Paul/Paul 2012!
This guy looks like the crazy guy on the street corner who is always going on about how the country has gone to hell ever since we got off the gold standard. Oh wait…
Hey! I'm all excited and tingly………..never mind that was just my cell phone on vibrate.
Gay pressure?
Wait. The Tin Man is running?
Did the Paultard art department Photoshop™ the head of a bald eagle on the wings of a California condor to get bigger wings. Bigger wings = best wings? Is Ron Paul giving America the bird with a bald vulture? Do we have any birders who could confirm?
I think–in my very inexpert, I once owned a Peterson's Field Guide way–that it is either:
a) a legit bald eagle pic, but with tail feathers inexplicably removed and whitened; or
b) conclusive proof that Paulies don't go outdoors enough.
See http://www.pbase.com/garyirwin/raptors for some comparison photos.
Well, an adult eagle is as big as a well-fed turkey (36" + high but not as heavy) and has a wingspan of well over 6 feet. They are HUGE.
That's just a shitty paultardian picture of a rather magnificent species.
Looks like a turkey vulture. (the bird, I mean)
The wings look like the right feather pattern for bald eagles. The body seems a little skinny and, as you noted, it looks like it lost a lot of tail feathers.
I figure that just means it's a ratty old specimen, and won't dwell on the obvious symbolism.
An eagle's wing span can go to 8 feet, documented from the corpses draped over our power lines. Male eagles are smaller than females, so that must be a male whose white tail feathers got zapped [whoo hooo! that long skinny perch has a kick!] or skinny silhouetted by the "artist" or something.
Was it Ben Franklin or Teddy Roosevelt who referred to the bald eagle as a vulture in fancy dress?
Golly, I just upfisted you all so fast I nearly fainted.
Thanks, I'd lurve to do the same for you anytime.
Sweet talker.
Who would have guessed the downfisters (they have got to be plural) would be Paultards?
you Brits, always so cheerful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOEM9SuDFZc&pl...
Let's ask the formerly-endangered bald eagle what HE thinks about market forces and government intervention.
I love how it says "Restore America Now" immediately over next year's date.
Weeping Eagle, indeed.
Eagle: "HE'S NOT WEARING ANY PANTS! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!"
Ron Paul: Everyone has a crazy old uncle somewhere. He's always smiling, so you never suspect what goes on in his room; that is, until the smell becomes overpowering. Mitt's hair shot is just rubbing salt in Trump's ass, nothing more.
Saw Cong Dr Professor Obstetro-Paul on Colbert last night. He made sense when he talked about getting out of all the wars. Then he got started on the gold standard and launched into crazee-space.
Kind of a sweet ol' dude. Too bad he's almost entirely full of shit.
There was one part (can't exactly remember specifically what he was talking about) when he was speaking on currency that you almost heard the audience gasp he got so weird, and then Stephen was able to pull it back to being funny.
I always hear liberals speak on how much sense he can make, but, on net, he's crazy as fuck. It's really not even that close. He's good on the war and drug policy, but outside of that, everything else is just crazy for miles around, and not the kind of crazy where you know the Republican is cynically exploiting the masses, but crazy where you can tell he's a true believer that lives in conspiracyland.
Being only 90% full of shit puts him way ahead of the current GOP field, no?
"Paul’s people were able to find photos of their boss and a bald eagle that were in color, right?"
Does sepia tone count?
I hate to be nit-picky, but both these douchebags are using some (probably focus-grouped, probably facist) red, white and powder blue in their logos. These highly soothing logos are kind of like the candidates themselves – looking all patriotic, but in actual fact not so much. Take a better look at the flag, you two assholes.
I say be nit-picky. If they want to be picky about circumcision certificates to be president you can be picky about our national colors.
The ad reflects the way he looks at life, politics, and the complex issues of our day – in black and white.
Randroids only can see in black and white. also, aren't calls for "national renewal" usually a sign of proto-fascism? just wanted to say that, once.
I did it very lovingly.
Eagles and other birds fly upside down over Paul and his spawn because there's nothing there worth shitting on.
wait! i thought the dirigible industry beat birds out competitively through the power of Free Markets.
Correct, ergo replacing the eagle with a bat would fix everything.
Aha!
It seems Mr Paul's graphic designer is on this thread down-fisting everyone.
So I upfisted everyone.
PANTONES AT NOON
Down-fisting everyone? Is that what it means to be a libertarian? Interesting…
The Romney logo reads like Money. Is it a new business magazine?
The eagle represents the Paultards, who will be four years older during the upcoming primary, so many of them would be on their way out.
Restore America Now? How?
Put a toupee on it, just like Rand does.
Why is Frasier's dad running for President?
Sort of OT I have a friend who works with a major Republican operative/strategist and she just told me that all the major Repubs are so furious with Trump that they had to call Bush the First to talk to him and tell him to stop spewing all this racist garbage…he called and Trump refused to stop.
They like to keep their racism more subtle, dog-whistle style, not so blatant. At least they think it's subtle.
They can't really think that they are going to win over any minorities after the two and a half year tantrum they've thrown over the half-breed muslin, can they?
On Letterman last night, he was talking to Bill Maher (yeah, whatever) and Letterman basically said, "Eh, Trump's not running for real – I got my sources inside his 'machine' and he really is punking all of us." (Letterman seemed relatively serious.)
So WHO KNOWS?
That's rich, the guy who did the Willie Horton ad doesn't want to be racist.
No one puts Baby in the corner.
That's the beauty and ugliness of Trump; once you wind the bastard up, you can't stop him until he runs out of kinetic energy.
I think you may have uncovered the next Manchurian candidate, he runs as a libertarian but his Marxists leanings are exposed by the use of black and white in this add. Every dedicated communist knows color film is decadent and represent theft from the proletariat. It’s an enigma rapped in a riddle I tell you.
thats not an eagle. Look closely. it is a turkey buzzard disguised as The national symbol
The Daily Intel over @ NY Mag likened Trump to the movie the *Human Centipede*. But taking their concept one step further, note that none of the Rethugs in the race are polling worth a damn. Should we worry that since they are all are sucking big time at the polls, that the Repube candidates would steal an idea from the unions/D'Rats/lefties, recognize the value in collaboration and form a human centipede and run as one?
If so, shudder, the big question would be who is the piehole and who is the asshole?
More like "The Human Ouroboros".
Get it? its a black bird flying away…
I've lost all interest in these GOPtards.
I'm casting my vote for the One Nation Under Sex ticket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiKh9Ko3mw4
The Matrix with some decent boobs. Otherwise I think the needle got stuck in the groove.
Eagle is thinking:
"Oh my god, I have to get away! That's the guy that believes in libertarianism. A simplistic, idealistic, philosophy that makes sense in a college pamphlet, but in the real world cannot really work. Although elements of the philosophy are the basis of any free society, the extremist version is dangerous because we are all interconnected and without laws to uphold the common good, the greed and fear of the powerful minority would soon destroy the USA, turning it into a smoldering, polluted, radioactive desert full of gun wielding racist militias slaying every living thing they spy in the name of their angry God."
Arizona?
That fucking eagle is a total elitist, man.
You are exciting me, although you remain chaste.
Great logo, perfect for black and white TV sets, which most of his supporters still have, replete with bent rabbit ears…
And now wondering why they only get snow and static on their b&w TVs.
Just more proof of the downfall of this once great tv-getting nation, since that one got in the white house.
OK, maybe I'm crazy here, but the little swishy-swooshes in Paul's logo remind me more of Obama's 2008 logo than Mittens' new logo.
Obama logo
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STOP INSULTING AMERICA'S NATIONAL SYMBOL RON PAUL! WHY DO YOU PEOPLE HATE FREEDOMS?!
Is it just me or does Ron Paul you like Dr. Kevorkian?
I will not rest until THIS OBAMINATION comes to a screeching … oh.
The constitution watermark makes the logo look appropriately wrinkled.
(honestly, though? I find that photo of Ron surprisingly endearing)
RuPaul…I mean Ron Paul…taking you back a century, when black & white were cutting edge, and social security didn't exist!
What exactly are we restoring America to? It's original condition? We'd all have to leave and let the Indians have it back. I guess that's what the eagle is doing, leading the way out.
http://www.explodedgoat.com/images/misc/calbaby.j...
The eagle is just trying to get away from the hungry mob armed with shotguns.
A few thoughts:
1. It really does look like a vulture.
2. Rand sprung from his loins.
3. Gold is better than American dollars, which will soon be worth less than toilet paper.
4. His voice is absolutely the worst I have ever heard.
5. He is almost 80.
6. In the primary, he will bleed more votes off of, say, Mittens, than, say, Bachmann.
Notice how Romney emphasized his presidential hair
Put a bird on it!
It's a vulture … & it's circling its next meal.
I thought turkeys couldn't fly.
Paul will be our Yuri Andropov/Konstantin Chernenko analogue; he's already older than both of them…I'd give him about 13-15 months before rigor mortis sets in.
America's Crazy Great-Uncle just doesn't know how to quit us. We'll have to let him down gently like last time. You know, let him win or come close to winning the Idaho Republican primary or something.
I love how Rand was saying on CNN, today, that he would have jumped in if his father hadn't. What a special family, this is.
I wonder whether the eagle is fleeing from something: http://avherald.com/h?article=43b4e068&opt=0
Stupid ESA standing in the way of progress.
They aren't in black and white. They've just been taking colloidal silver.
The last time I saw a bald eagle, it was eating carrion by the side of a highway. I expect to see Ron Paul doing the same if I ever see him.
I have some older relatives in Appalachia who used to refer to paydays as "the day the eagle shits".
Perhaps Ron Paul had that in mind.
I think the implication is that the bald eagle pooped Ron Paul into existence. **shrug** I've heard worse theories.
Restore America? Back to when it was fine to go home and rough up the wife because she was too "mouthy" and then go pull a niggra behind your pickup for entertainment? If he wins, I'm starting a medical waste disposal company. I can do anything with the waste because the gubmint won't have their socialist hands in my business.
I am personally thrilled to be able to vote for a man of tremendous conviction his whole life. It puts me to shame. GO RON!!!!!
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