New Ron Paul ad hits Santorum: "Is this dude serious?"

“Is this dude serious?” the narrator asks over a cartoon of Santorum. “Fiscal conservative, really?” The ad then runs down various spending Santorum supported while in the Senate. In the end, it compares Santorum the fiscal conservative to Bigfoot — “Fake.”

There’s a shot at Santorum’s social conservative credentials, too — the ad claims he “even hooked Planned Parenthood up with a few million bucks.”

It’s true that Santorum voted for funding for contraception through Title X, and some of that money goes to Planned Parenthood (a group he wants to defund). But it’s hard to imagine the social conservative losing support to Paul on this issue.