Disciples of roguish Ron descended on the northern regions of South Carolina with a sunny yellow van and a hot air balloon Thursday morning, hovering the giant balloon, draped in two very small, not terribly convincing Ron Paul signs, over a frontage road off I-85 near Greenville. The ballooners told a local TV station, while standing in front of a billboard that reads “Massage Envy,” that they were just “pleading with people to go vote for Ron Paul in the primary. We wanted to be seen.” (The mere sight of the thing appeared to back up traffic for four miles, so great job.) Anyway, “pleading”! Indeed, we forgot the man was still in the race. The dudes were promptly given a citation for “improper lane use,” and enraged commuters will now vote for Herman Cain in protest. [Raw Story]
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January 20, 2012
Paultards Launch Hot Air Balloon Over SC Freeway to Remind People Paul Exists
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Today "improper lane use", tomorrow the world!
The only thing bigger and more full of hot air is Rush.
Wouldn't it have been easier to hand out balloon animals at the local WalMart?
give away something for free? what would Galt think?
Not to mention more likely to attract appreciative voters?
I dunno…is it just me or is there something really creepy about the Paultards obsession with inflatables?
Especially since the Montgolfiers were… French!
Something like this?
Foolishly, I clicked on that at work.
It's not the packing up of my belongings I'm going to mind so much as it is the judgmental stares.
wtf?
Rule 34
It's not just you.
I dunno…is it just me or is there something really creepy about the Paultards obsession with inflatables?
Beyond the normal Paultard creepiness?
Honestly, what do the Paultards think the balloons and blimps are going to accomplish, other than making them even bigger laughingstocks. That someone will see that balloon and realize that they simply must revise their whole outlook and vote for Ron Paul? Or is it that they are appealing to voters who watch or read absolutely no news what so ever and that floating a blimp or balloon is the only way to reach them?
Hmm.
Vast yet empty, initially awesome yet more or less useless … I don't see a problem here.
This is not the rEVOLution battle blimp we were promised.
We Ron Paul / fantasy fiction fans prefer the term dirigible.
The balloon and his campaign are both going nowhere.
Another zeppelin made of lead.
Obviously, there is a communication breakdown.
Pauly's supporters are not feeling a whole lotta love. They've been trampled underfoot because their song remains the same.
…as they head to the gallows pole.
When some jackass morons fuck up my commute, it makes me want to vote for the man they're supporting.
Gray Balloons!!
Where the hell do you even find a gray balloon? Must be Navy surplus or something.
If those drivers didn't want to be stuck in traffic, they should have built their own private road. Free market solution FTW!
Let's see — what's the best way to get people to vote for Ron Paul? His supporters could either mount a campaign explaining why he's not, for instance, a racist, isolationist, impractical loon — or they could float a balloon over (okay, next to) the interstate disrupting traffic. Clearly they made the wise choice.
They did it because it challenges the status quo!
I'll never get logic of the liberals that have fallen for this guy.
Free weed!
How many won't vote for Paul now that he made them late for work?
We're talking about South Carolina. There's no work for them to be late to.
Given the jobs most of these people were going to, I don't think interfering with the morning commute was that big a deal. Blocking the way to a massage parlor – that's another story.
Obviously the road to Damascus on which Paul will be converted to Islam as the genie of hot air rises from the earth, bearing his name before his eyes, before ascending to heavan, attended by choirs of masseuses, offering "special services" to Herman Cain….
Huge bulbous protuberance + "Massage Envy" sign = ?
Apparently, it is hard to fly a balloon made out of gold and powered by casual racism and conspiracy theories? Who would have guessed? Besides sane people with IQs over about 60.
Maybe explains the.thousands of UFO sightings in SC today.
more Paultards in your state means more Paultards reporting having seen UFOs.
And then they dropped the turkeys down to the greatful South Carolinians each with a little blue bow reading "Support Ron Paul" around it's neck. "As God is my witness I thought Turkeys could fly…"
Why don't they make good shows like this anymore?
I thought Newt had the hot air balloon and the Paultards had the Hindenburg?
Newt is the hot air balloon
WYFF? Pronounced "whiff" as in "whiffy" or stinky? Or is it pronounced like the thing Newt has had too many of?
Google The Old Guy Who Looks Like A Prospector.
And the balloon, like Paul and his campaign, remained flat. Thank you, paultards in your creepy yellow pedovan, for allowing the meme to continue.
That freeway isn't free! It's paid for with your tax mevoLney.
So earnest! And so dumb! Paint-huffers for Paul, UNTIE!
Dude, he's gonna legalize paint!
"We wanted to be seen" ought to be the official motto of libertarianism.
A citation for "improper lane use"? Obviously one more way in which Big Government is afraid of Ron Paul.
Hey, Seattle!
Mind if we borrow the Space Needle for a bit?
I see the Paultards have risen to their usual level of competence.
'Tard-tastic!
It's not their fault they were blocking traffic! They were lost. They were looking for Galt's Gulch.
And, here I thought Gingrich was the bulbous thing full of the most hot air in South Carolina.
Meanwhile, the two libertarian Paulites in Butte, Montana continue their shenanigans on Montana St. Nope, I'm serious. It's real. One of them parades in front of the local "Mall" (motto: we have more closed stores than the historic business district) each Saturday.
It's been fun to watch around here lately. There's a competition between the Paultards and the panhandlers to see who gets to the prime streetcorners first, and I gotta give mad love to the homeless guys, they're holding their own pretty well against the far more organized and better financed Paultards.
Paultards: Making the homeless look good since 1975.
Paultards: Giving the LaRouchers a run for their money since 2004.
If they would have slapped a Confederate flag on it, I'm sure they could have left it up.
It's funny 'cause it's true.
Congratulations for the world's lowest balloon flight.
Sure that's not just Newt?
I'm getting some massage envy watching that video…
To see how quickly Paul collapses and loses discipline is an amazing sight. He goes from contender to irrelevant every electionn and seemingly at warp speed, each time. His debate performance the other night was pitiful.
Question, what created more a spectacle, the giant balloon on the side of the highway, or three cop cars with flashing lights near the giant balloon on the side of the highway?
massage envy? i thought the billboard read: message ennui.
On the bright side, unlike the Blimp farce the balloon farce was low enough for people to read…
Otherwise, another stunning example of putting the 'tard in Paultard.
Best line ever about Ron Paul: Guess his name and he will teach you to spin straw into gold!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/stephen-...
Stunning symbol of how high they plan to get once Ron Paul legalizes weed. Nice move boys.
And here I thought Kelly Clarkson was the only blimp endorsing Ron Paul.
There's no such thing as "improper lane use" when government gets out of the way and private white entities are allowed to build the roads.
Baloon. Perfect metaphor for the current crop of S.C. hopefuls. As I'v always suspected, the Right has no sense of irony.
A cranky old guy's balloon, a clueless youngster in a silly hat, and lots of unintended consequences? I liked it better when it was a Pixar movie called "Up".
That's no
moonblimp!Next Up: the Ron Paul submarine, advertising the Doctor's R3v0lut10n 2.0 to that all-important Bottom Feeder demographic!
Well, when the levee breaks…
The SC Repo primary could well be the battle of Mordor.
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