The only reason Paul is soaring in Iowa is for two reasons, one, Newt Gingrich is a big government Republican and two, Ron Paul’s well-organized in Iowa.
And the question is still on the table as to why RP is the only candidate the Republicans seem to have that's not big government.
It's like he's their poison-pill for constitutionalists, put there as a target to make the constitutional originalists look crazy and provide cover for the neocon revisionists.