Returning to Iowa, where polls show him
contending for first place in next week's caucuses, Ron Paul
studiously ignored a barrage of news media questions Wednesday
about fresh attacks from rivalsMitt Romney and Newt Gingrich,
including over incendiary newsletters published under his name in
the 1990s.
The 76-year-old candidate was trailed by a throng of reporters
pressing him for a response to Gingrich's latest attack in a TV
interview Tuesday, which described Paul as too extreme to merit his
vote were he to become the GOPnominee, and Romney's swipe at Paul's
refusal to advocate a tough policy toward Iran's nuclear
program.
He...