Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No. Sadly and disappointingly, it’s just the Ron Paul Blimp. Many of us feel that the Ron Paul candidacy will wind up merely a sour footnote to an often dispiriting primary season. The candidate himself barely operates on the fringes of normal, routinely tossing grenades like the time he suggested that Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack was justified because of our foreign policy. But let’s face it – even at his worse moments, Paul has never said anything worse than you’d read in reputable online activism sites such as the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos. But Paul’s supporters have elevated crazy to an art form. It is thanks to a particularly maniacal band of supporters that Paul can make a claim that no other presidential candidate in history can make. Paul is officially the first Oval Office aspirant to have a dirigible
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