“Wow, when I saw the blimp I thought “Ron Who?” I decided I needed to take the advice on the blimp and look him up on google. So far I am totally amazed. This appears to be the candidate I was waiting for all my life, and a BLIMP TOLD ME ABOUT IT!” -Kristen Henders, Salisbury, MD

Truly, a blimp told me about it. But that blimp is gone now:

Current Blimp status: The blimp is headed back home to it’s hangar in Elizabeth City, NC. The blimp did not receive enough sponsorships to keep it afloat any longer. We will be keeping the banners in hopes of flying the blimp for “round 2” in a few months. If you would like to sponsor the blimp we would still appreciate it as we still have a balance due to Airship Management Services.

Whatever you may think about Ron Paul and his more fanatical devotees (the former, probably a less-than-closeted racist, the latter, possibly crazy), the Ron Paul Blimp was proof that politics isn’t as brutally cynical and micromanaged as we’d all like to believe. A group of people, even if unhinged in their enthusiasm, decided that they would do something momentous, and they did it. That their efforts at this point probably have led to nothing is secondary to the fact that they did something at all.

So, Ron Paul Blimp, I salute you one last time: