Ron Paul supporters working to get Ron Paul another blimp

Published June 27, 2012 4:00am ET



It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Wait a minute — that, my friends, is a Ron Paul blimp.

That’s the reaction some of the presidential candidate’s biggest supporters are hoping for if they can raise enough funds to fly a dirigible over the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Back in 2008, Paul’s supporters raised $600,000 to fly the first Ron Paul blimp for six weeks over parts of Maryland and then down the coast to Florida. For Ron Paul Blimp 2.0, longtime Paul activist Trevor Lyman is gauging interest to make a scene simply at Tampa.

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