A Rand Paul for Senate Blimp?

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The 32' model should be good enough and should also be far cheaper than the prices quoted above...
http://www.aerostar.com/helium/aeroblimp_30.htm

PikeCoGOP of KY 1:21PM August 26, 2009

Whatever Rand Paul does we have to get him elected to the US Senate. We need more fiscally responsible people in Washington DC. The bums in Congress now, Ds and Rs both, are just a gang of spend thrift, hi-rolling parasites on the American people!
So, blimp it or play a trump card, but turn this trick!
Rand Paul for the Senate in 2010!
Adam Kokesh for the House in 2010!
Peter Schiff for the Senate in 2010!
and Ron Paul for President in 2012!

OdBenFranklin of KY 1:38PM August 16, 2009

One nation in dirigible with liberty and taxes lighter than air.

Donald meinshausen of KY 10:56PM August 11, 2009

I thought the blimp was a great idea, for Ron and now for Rand, but it needs to be more of a grassroots guerrilla marketing idea. In other words, it needs to be cheap. It needs to leverage grassroots volunteers who donate their time. I know it's a long shot, but we need to find someone with an airship commercial pilot's license to volunteer time and get the airship for not a lot of money somehow. It was difficult to fund the commercial Ron Paul blimp in the presidential campaign even though it was the sort of audacious idea that resonated with Ron Paul supporters.
Maybe we could get a Rand Paul supporter who is a commercial fixed wing pilot to volunteer her time and use of her plane to tow a banner. We could chip in for avgas and other minor operating expenses.
At the Fancy Farm political picnic, I was kicking myself for not having the foresight to have a small radio controlled Rand Paul blimp to fly under the open sided pavilion.
A radio controlled blimp could still be a useful item to have for a few venues in the coming year, and that IS cheap advertising and it's just the sort of guerrilla marketing that one individual in the grassroots community could do.

Bruce Layne of KY 10:38PM August 11, 2009

I think as a political move, especially in Kentucky, this idea is good. Maybe it wouldn't play up North, but I think in KY, it's a fun, interesting way to get the candidate's name out there.

Murray of KY 9:04PM August 11, 2009

Then you can afford to follow the Pauls' blimps around like proper Bigfoot hunters and Roswell vacationers. Until then, you had better just stay home and save your money.
Remember, a government that is not broke is not a thing particularly preferable to a country where most of the PEOPLE are broke.

Muser of NM 9:03PM August 11, 2009

If a blimp could enable people to acquire a fully functioning brain and vote for fiscal sanity, I say go for it. Sadly this is not the case. Spending the money on town halls where Rand talks directly to voters is probably the way to go.

Ben of NM 8:29PM August 11, 2009

We're busted!!

ThePlanner of NY 6:53PM August 11, 2009

Ron and Rand Paul offer more sensible solutions for our country than anyone else running for office. Bring out troops home. Audit the Federal Reserve. Balance our budget by cutting the size of government.
Schiff, with Paul's endorsement,. raised half a million dollars in a money bomb 2 days ago.
And you choose to make an entire article about a blimp.
The name U.S. News and World Report appears to be a misnomer.

truthseeker of SC 6:38PM August 11, 2009