Ron Paul is coughing up some of the oodles of cash he’s raised in this campaign for a new ad touting himself as the “True Texan” in the run-up for the Lone Star State primary.
Of course, it’s Paul’s swaggering, Big Government-slashing agenda that the ad equates with authentic Texan bona fides. But by birth, the good Dr. shares a pedigree with two of his three targets.
Like Rick Santorum, Paul was raised near Pittsburgh in Western Pennsylvania. And like Newt Gingrich, he fled the Rust Belt Keystone State for brighter horizons in the Sun Belt in the Seventies.
With Santorum’s campaign suspension today, we’ll see how many of those votes that the still-Pennsylvanian former senator was counting on that Ron Paul can snap up with this “I’m the only True Texan” gambit.
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