As one of the contributors and proponents of the Ron Paul Blimp, which was conceived on the Daily Paul website, I was dissapointed that its flight plan was changed due to poor weather, but the fact is, it still flies and may help Dr. Paul gain more support in the southern states where he needs it. The Tea Party Rally will still take place this Sunday 16th in Boston on the Common and at Fanuel Hall, regardless of weather! Thousands of faithful Ron Paul supporters gathering on Boston Common in the face of a Nor'easter should convince the MSM and the country of our resolve and dedication to Dr. Paul!

well the blimp and also now abcnews get international attention.
greets from the netherlands :)

The media lacks objectivity again and again toward Ron Paul. The subtle adjective,"harebrain," reveals the author's prejudice against the liberty and creativity of the supporters of Ron Paul. No other candidate the voluntary supporters like Ron Paul because Ron Paul is the most consistent candidate of all the presidential candidates.

How is a hot-air balloon a good symbol for a Presidential candidate? Waste of money...

Sean O'Brien: It's not a "hot-air balloon" rather an airship or a blimp. It's not associated with the official campaign, rather raised and executed solely by his supporters.

I gave $10 and consider it an investment because if elected Ron Paul can save lives, billions of dollars, and put some income taxes back in my pocket. And I need it, brother. We all need Ron Paul.

Your right, as often occurs, adjectives like "harebrain," reveals the prejudices of the establishment writers. However, this "harebrain" idea has already generated millions of dollars of publicity, promoting the tea-party fund raiser on Sunday. Thus, the writer sounds like a fool. The media exposure on Monday will then followed by a one hour interview with Dr. Ron Paul on Tuesday will start to wake up the masses who will join the revolution. Restore the Republic and our constitutional rights.

Which other candidate has generated this much excitement and support from the people? Which other candidate has raised as much campaign cash from regular people? Despite the media blackout that continues to this day Ron Paul IS the most popular candidate running today. I would say that would make him the front-runner. The front-runners are not the candidates that the mainstream media constantly shoves down our throat. One of the great things to come from this campaign is the exposure of blatant media bias to a large portion of Americans. It will be that group of proud, patriotic Americans that will reclaim liberty from the corporate tyranny that is running the economy into the ground and causing the deaths of patriotic US soldiers, the bombing of innocent civilians and destroying the constitution in the name of the intentionally undefined "global war on terror".

An $11.5 million haul this quarter while the other Republiscum are begging for money from their supporters. The quarter isn't even over yet and the Ron Paul money bomb is on this weekend! This is a bottom-up revolution so you won't see it covered by the top-down corporate controlled media!!

Thank you for covering this story. Now lets see some footage!

The author also used the words, "his independent, rascally supporters,"

"Rascally supporters"??

Etymology: Middle English rascaile foot soldiers, commoners, worthless person, from Anglo-French rascaille, from Old French dialect (Norman & Picard) *rasquer to scrape, clean off, from Vulgar Latin *rasicare
Date: 15th century

1 : a mean, unprincipled, or dishonest person

2 : a mischievous person or animal
— rascal adjective

It is evident that it is you, Z. Byron Wolf, that is being dishonest in your discription of Ron Paul supporters. It's these kinds of attacks that inspire Ron Paul patriots to work even harder. Thanks!

The dream has become a reality -- the blimp is flying today!

Some things don't work out exactly like you hope, but with a large, well-organized, and quick-reacting grassroots network, Ron Paul supporters can adapt to changing conditions and make the most of any situation.

Harebrained idea? You're writing about it, aren't you?

you make a great point of how the mainstream media is now being exposed as the corporate-owned bias, spin machine that it is. Thousands of Ron Paul supporters, if not more, trusted the media before this blatant exposure of their agenda.

I suspect that what we can mainstream media will go the way of the dinosaur very soon, losing not only enormous profits, but the brainwashed television and newspaper readers all across the country. This is serving as their wake up call. Thanks mainstream media. You're doing us a big favor exposing yourself like this.

Harebrained idea, indeed! This airship/blimp idea was conceived out of love--love for the message of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness supported by a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

The Old Media resents Ron Paul supporters referring to them as the MSM and even less the Old Media. They resent Ron Paul supporters and all their attention seeking "antics" from the money-bomb to the blimp. They especially resent that Ron Paul has survived so far as a candidate despite their efforts to negatively stigmatize Ron Paul.

They must have all been in the same meeting for all the media outlets to parrot the same thing about Ron Paul having no chance. But this negative conditioning they exposed to their audience has so far been proven wrong thanks to Ron's supporters. They are left to harping back to their national polls to give validity to their weakened claim.

The Old mainstream media will be bullied into becoming ROn Paul's lap dog as long as Ron has his vibrat supporters.

It is we who cannot conform to what we know to be sub level standards. We tend to create our own standards, typically far higher than what normal people consider, acceptable. Such is the phrase, "Good enough for government work." We set new standards all the time, just to have them bureaucratically destroyed, or worse, subsidized, with lower standards, & tons of red tape. Now, we work as one, for a common goal. A goal shared by the many, the proud, the strong, the self governing. Once again, the people, will show the world how it's done, again. The keystroke is mightier than the IED.

The RP blimp will be headline news everywhere and everyday, no matter where the weather takes it. It's even making international headlines. It's all over the internet. You can't put a price on the publicity it is drawing. It is a brilliant, de facto and bonifide success story. It has been a fantastic grassroots coup to think up this *hairbrained* idea and to fund it in such a short period of time. The neocons are just envious of Ron Paul's support.

Guiliani did a scoop and dump operation of our fallen 9/11 heroes the firement.

He should campaign it is a "green" ship. Powered by the hot air coming from the Democrats and the rest of the Republican party.

Personally, I feel calling "MSM" old media is actually too polite - let's call a spade a spade - about about the CM - the CORRUPT MEDIA! THANK YOU LORD that there is no regulation of the internet or the neocons would have this medium controlled too - Betcha the Corrupt Media never dreamed of the day when WE THE PEOPLE would have an alternative to their rubbish. One thing I can't help but wonder is how some of those that work at those Corrupt Media Corporations can stand it and can keep themselves from boarding this Freedom Train?

It is still going to work. Maybe it is gong where it is suppose to go. It's a bird, it's a plane no it is the Ron Paul Blimp!

Am I the only person who detects eerie similarities between Ron Paul supporters and those who once worshiped Ross Perot? Don't you guys get it? If you're not rich all ready, their policies won't help you.

As for the blimp itself- interesting concept, though I imagine that there are better ways to campaign. But I applaud the Ron Paul campaign for its innovation... even if Dr. Paul's platform utterly terrifies me.

If "FREEDOM AND LIBERTY FOR ALL" utterly terrifies you, I really do feel sorry for ya. Government is taking out Freedoms and Liberties from us constantly and it needs to STOP. VOTE RON PAUL........YAY