Ron Paul Backers Focus on Iowa With Straw Poll Looming

With barely a week to go until the presidential straw poll in Ames held by the Iowa GOP, supporters of Texas Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Paul focused on Iowa on Wednesday. Revolution PAC, which is backing Paul, announced on Wednesday it was buying a full-page ad for its candidate in the Ames Tribune and putting up billboards across the state.

"The ads we've placed distinguish Ron Paul from the pack, and don't portray him as just another plain vanilla conservative Republican," insisted prominent libertarian writer Thomas Woods, who serves on the board of Revolution PAC. "Our emphasis leading into the Iowa straw poll is on Dr. Paul's extraordinary record over the course of 12 congressional terms. Iowans are not going to find another candidate who has never, in 24 years in office, voted for a tax hike, an unbalanced budget, or an increase in the debt ceiling. In Ron Paul, they will find a man who refuses to speak in bumper-sticker slogans and who simply tells them the truth regardless of what it costs him politically."

"We're just dipping our toes in the water, taking the temperature of freedom," said Gary Franchi, the president of Revolution PAC. It's going to be a hot election.

"Our ads remind voters that only Dr. Paul -- at a time when other Republican candidates were foolishly assuring Americans that everything was fine, totally oblivious to what was about to hit us -- predicted the financial crisis that has caused so much devastation, added Franchi. That's yet another reason we consider it so urgent to communicate this great man's ideas to the American public."