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Offlinebugabuga420
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The Ron Paul BLIMP!
    #7738875 - 12/09/07 11:59 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/12/07/ron_paul_supporters_to_launch_blimp_from_eastern_nc/

Ron Paul supporters to launch blimp from eastern NC

December 7, 2007

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.—Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul want his campaign to take flight -- literally.
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A group of Paul backers plan to launch a 200-foot-long blimp bearing his name next week from Elizabeth City. The aerial billboard -- with "Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul" on one side and "Ron Paul Revolution" on the other -- will float up the East Coast past major cities.

On the itinerary: A stop in Boston on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, where Paul supporters will re-enact the event by dumping tea from the blimp into the Boston harbor.

After that, the blimp is scheduled to spend a couple of weeks over New Hampshire before the first-in-the-nation primary set for Jan. 8. After the vote, according to a schedule posted on a Web site for the project, the blimp will "depart for Disney World."

Liberty Political Advertising, including company president and Paul supporter Trevor Lyman, is organizing the project. The zeppelin isn't officially affiliated with the Texas congressman's campaign.

A Web site dedicated to the blimp says the group has raised more than $200,000 as of Friday evening -- enough to keep the craft afloat for about two weeks.

Liberty said its structure as a for-profit company selling ads that clients can sponsor allows it to avoid limits on campaign contributions. The group is getting legal advice from Bradley Smith, the former director of the Federal Election Commission.

Paul, a former Libertarian who stands apart from the other GOP presidential contenders by opposing the Iraq war, has low poll numbers but soaring support among anti-government voters on the Internet.


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: bugabuga420]
    #7741107 - 12/10/07 03:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

long live anti government supporters on the internet


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: tak]
    #7741251 - 12/10/07 03:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

i cant help but to think 200k+ would be better spent on things other than a blimp.... but who am I?


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: kotik]
    #7741304 - 12/10/07 03:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

well when you figure that money spent on the blimp will pale in comparison to the millions of dollars worth of free publicity the blimp will attract. goto ronpaulblimp.com and check out the flight plan! they plan on flying up the east coast to all the major cities, on dec 16 the annv of the boston tea party and the next ron paul money bomb they are going to dump tea into the harbor. then they will move on the new hampshire and fly over the primaries for 2 weeks. compare the cost of all that advertising to the cost of tv ads etc then its well worth it.
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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: bugabuga420]
    #7741321 - 12/10/07 03:53 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

i just have a hard time understanding how someone seeing "Ron Paul 2008" will make an impact. It may make his name more familiar, but that's about it.

Then again, I was never one to be influenced by billboards and magazine ads as much. Maybe I just don't understand because I'm from the digital age...


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: bugabuga420]
    #7741420 - 12/10/07 04:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

how are they going to dump 'tea' in to boston harbor?

that's just a joke, right?

or are we all going to put on war paint and charge from the local masonic
lodge to tip barrels into the bay?


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: afoaf]
    #7741764 - 12/10/07 05:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

well one side says "who is ron paul?" "google ron paul" the intent i guess is to bypass the major media outlets who are refusing to recognize the legitimacy of dr. paul's campaign and force them to. how do you not report on a giant blimp going up and down the east coast. the fact it was independently financed and the whole idea in general is brand new and makes history so they have to report. they figure if people just hear his message and view his integrity they will vote for him for sure.


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: afoaf]
    #7741778 - 12/10/07 05:36 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I thought we were throwing Giuliani into the harbor :shrug:


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: johnm214]
    #7741780 - 12/10/07 05:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

and yes they really do intend on dumping tea from the blimp into the harbor


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: bugabuga420]
    #7742098 - 12/10/07 06:41 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I think it's an excellent idea to advertise to have people discover Paul over the net. They will get not only his phenomenal patriotic platform, but also why major media is not covering him, and is trying to delegitimatize his campaign.


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: bugabuga420]
    #7742253 - 12/10/07 07:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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bugabuga420 said:
and yes they really do intend on dumping tea from the blimp into the harbor




isn't this at least littering or, worse, an assault on the environment in
the name of political campaigning?


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: afoaf]
    #7742370 - 12/10/07 07:32 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Quote:

bugabuga420 said:
and yes they really do intend on dumping tea from the blimp into the harbor




isn't this at least littering or, worse, an assault on the environment in
the name of political campaigning?




Yeah, leaves falling into water is littering, and is as abhorrent as you causing global warming by exhaling CO2.


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: bugabuga420]
    #7742918 - 12/10/07 09:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The discussion about the tea bags being dumped into Boston Harbor is irrelevant, as they won't be dumping tea bags from Boston Harbor. There is to be a symbolic gesture of tossing a few tea leaves from the blimp. Personally, I'm not sure if you can just open a window on a blimp or what. :lol:

I understand that some tea might be dumped into the harbor from people on the ground, but what do you expect from a bunch of landlubbers. :shrug:

Someone stated that they were certain the money could have been spent on better things. Its true that the blimp is whimsical, I was saying as much when it was a new idea (now its being launched :smirk:), but the important point is that it will be highly effective as well.

$200,000 might seem like a lot of money that could have been better spent, but $200,000 is nothing when compared to the amount that the grass-roots effort is spending in all of its other endeavors. The official campaign probably receives a minimum of $100,000 every day. Some days it is $4.3 million. :hehehe:

The yield from that investment is going to be priceless. There won't be any way to calculate the amount of support translated back into funds, and votes. :thumbup:

Once it became clear that the blimp would be watched, every major media outlet was covering it. Not only that, but the articles read like an advertisement for Ron Paul. ABC News even linked with teaparty07.com, where you can pledge for the Boston Tea Party moneybomb.

When it is up in the air, it will be an unprecedented phenomenon in American politics. The media will love to cover it, because when do you get the opportunity to ride a blimp? Expenses paid if they write a story. :smirk:

I mean, certainly, the simple fact that people will see the blimp above them will have an effect too, and this is the one that has been questioned in this thread. Well, once the blimp starts flying over major events, as the lawyers are looking into Times Square for New Years, for example (Fujifilm flew over New York City for quite some time after 9/11, so there is precedent regarding the fly zone laws), it will be very effective. As New Hampshire gets ready to vote in the last weeks before their strategic primary, there will be a Ron Paul blimp giving them its undivided attention, a state that has conditions already very favorable to Ron Paul.

The blimp will be a media sensation. When it will be coupled with the amazing haul in official donations on 12/16, with the blimp overseeing it from the Boston Tea Party, Ron Paul's campaign will launch into top-tier status. He's hovering just underneath that right now, with some measures placing him in the top three in certain early states. The last I had read, he was sitting two or three points behind John McCain and Fred Thompson. This is in telephone polls that stack the deck agansit a candidate like Ron Paul, ineffective tools that cannot gain an accurate representation of the actual support out there. The fact that Huckabee unexpectedly surged into the top-tier is evidence enough that the race is very fluid. Ron Paul has so many advantages over any other candidate, and he's been building up a solid, rising foundation to launch him, whereas Huckabee is standing aboard a record that clearly contradicts his word, the fact that he has no real grass-roots organization, not much money, and some controversies. He might be getting more money and support now, but it won't be rooted and it will fade as Ron Paul soars.

Ron Paul is the only candidate that can win the Republican nomination. This is being realized, more and more, by more and more people. You can't look at yesterday's finality to judge tomorrow's actuality. Everything exists in a constant state of change. That isn't to say, however, that you can't observe what is happening and notice trends. Anyone who looks will know. Unless something unexpected happens, like an assasination or some kind of huge crisis, we know what to expect. :smirk:


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7742963 - 12/10/07 09:57 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Ron Paul is the only candidate that can win the Republican nomination.




Come on now.


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: Minstrel]
    #7743131 - 12/10/07 10:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I guess I was being too literal and envisioned barrels of tea going into the harbor.

:rollseyes:


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7743142 - 12/10/07 10:41 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
    #7743524 - 12/11/07 12:36 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

actually, it isn't real tea thats gonna be dumped into the harbor. It's gonna be boxes with words like "income tax", "Federal Reserve","Patriot Act", "NAFTA", "Iraq War" ect, ect. It's a symbol of dumping these unconstitutional acts into the Boston harbor.


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: bugabuga420]
    #7743795 - 12/11/07 03:51 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

> I thought we were throwing Giuliani into the harbor :shrug:

Nah, you're thinking of Hillary... gotta see if she floats or sinks...


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7743885 - 12/11/07 06:09 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Come on now.




Just wait and see. :wink:


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Re: The Ron Paul BLIMP! [Re: johnm214]
    #7743967 - 12/11/07 07:27 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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I thought we were throwing Giuliani into the harbor :shrug:




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