In final NH ad, Paul paints himself as only "honest," "true" candidate

A little over a week before the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is making a final push to give frontrunner Mitt Romney a run for his money in the state, releasing a new ad that targets Romney and Newt Gingrich for their inconsistencies while declaring himself the only "true consistent candidate" in the race.

The 60-second ad will run starting Monday statewide on broadcast and cable television, as well as on broadcast TV in the greater Boston market.

Entitled "Believe," the ad intersperses pundits and average Americans lauding Paul's "honesty" and "consistency."

"He's something different," one person declares, while another calls him "the one we've been looking for."

Someone else intones: "This election is about trust."

Showing black-and-white images of Romney and Gingrich, the ad invokes pundits' quotes to take on Romney's "reputation as a flip-flopper" and Gingrich's willingness to go "the other way when he got paid to go the other way."

"It's about serial hypocrisy," a voice says, while a picture of Gingrich is onscreen.

"Ron Paul is surging in New Hampshire and is in it to win it," said Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton in a statement. "We have a first-class organization and tremendous support from a state where his message of personal and economic liberty resonates well. This ad will serve as the closing argument for why Ron Paul is the only authentic conservative in this race, and the only one capable of bringing authentic change to Washington."

Paul is currently polling second behind Romney in the Granite state - but the former Massachusetts governor, who owns a house there, has a commanding lead. A new Suffolk University/7News Poll shows Romney leading with 43 percent of the vote, followed by Paul with 17 percent. Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich are battling it out for third place, with 9 percent and 8 percent respectively