Gary Bauer blasts Ron Paul in new ad to air in SC

Christian conservative leader and 2000 presidential candidate Gary Bauer rips into Ron Paul’s foreign policy views in a new ad, released by a pro-Israel group and set to air in South Carolina starting next week, ahead of the state’s primary.

The ad features Bauer attacking Paul for being an “isolationist” who opposed the killing of Osama bin Laden, is ambivalent toward Iran seeking a nuclear weapon and is hostile toward Israel and has flirted with 9/11 conspiracies.

“Ron Paul is not a Reagan Republican,” Bauer says at the end of the ad. “We can do better.”

The ad was produced by the Emergency Committee for Israel, on which Bauer serves on the board along with the Weekly Standard’s William Kristol.

Paul is in fourth place in South Carolina with 11 percent support, according to a new Rasmussen poll. It has a large base of evangelical Christians, who are generally extremely pro-Israel. You can view the ad below.

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