Ron Paul takes the lead in Iowa.

[HalfLotus]

That's a 25 second clip. If the rest of the article went on along the lines of focussing on Ron Paul in second place, there's no omission.

Please can we have the full report?

[HalfLotus]

Media has been trying to orchestrate a Huntsman surge. The guy with minuscule national support, zero ground game, almost no money, and who failed to even get on the AZ, IL, and VA ballots doesn't get the "can't win" label like Ron Paul - he gets 48 hours of fawning press coverage from nearly every major media outlet in the country! Corporate media for the win!

Look for Huntsman to be the big story out of NH. Unconfirmed reports say Diebold programmers have been seen wearing Huntsman T-shirts in the Concord area.

edit: NH media already using late-night vote tallies (~20 or so votes already) to create a Romney v Huntsman narrative. Wouldn't be surpised to see Huntsman magically get 2nd place, with Paul again a close 3rd.

Wonder if New Hampshire votes are counted in secret like the Iowan ones were.

[Lorizael]

Hunstman - the only Republican candidate who believes in science.

[HalfLotus]

Libertarians do science!

Misled on Climate Change:
How the UN IPCC (and others) Exaggerate the Impacts of Global Warming

It is frequently asserted that climate change could have devastating consequences for poor
countries. Indeed, this assertion is used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) and other organizations as one of the primary justifications for imposing restrictions on
human emissions of greenhouse gases.

But there is an internal contradiction in the IPCC’s own claims. Indeed, the same highly influential
report from the IPCC claims both that poor countries will fare terribly and that they will be much
better off than they are today. So, which is it?

The apparent contradiction arises because of inconsistencies in the way the IPCC assesses impacts.
The process begins with various scenarios of future emissions. These scenarios are themselves
predicated on certain assumptions about the rate of economic growth and related technological
change.

Under the IPCC’s highest growth scenario, by 2100 GDP per capita in poor countries will be
double the U.S.’s 2006 level, even taking into account any negative impact of climate change. (By
2200, it will be triple.) Yet that very same scenario is also the one that leads to the greatest rise in
temperature—and is the one that has been used to justify all sorts of scare stories about the impact
of climate change on the poor.

Under this highest growth scenario (known as A1FI), the poor will logically have adopted, adapted
and innovated all manner of new technololgies, making them far better able to adapt to the future climate. But these improvements in adaptive capacity are virtually ignored by most global warming
impact assessments. Consequently, the IPCC’s “impacts” assessments systematically overestimate
the negative impact of global warming, while underestimating the positive impact.

Moreover, in these “impacts” assessments, global warming is not expected for the most part to
create new problems; rather, it is expected to exacerbate some existing problems of poverty (in
particular, hunger, disease, extreme events), while relieving others (such as habitat loss and water
shortages in some places).

[Elok]

Right. Anyway, I don't get much news here, but if Huntsman's getting extra attention it's probably just because he's one of the few candidates who haven't already been covered to death--they like to cover new stuff every once in a while.

[Dinner]

And since Ron Paul is capable of inflicting approximately zero damage on Romney, his relevance is reduced to total unimportance. That is, it would be if it weren't there already.

You're wrong there. With an independent run Paul just needs to pull 2%-5% of the vote in key states during the general election to totally torpedo Romney's election run. The Libertarian wing of the party has the power to make themselves the king maker or destroy a candidate they don't like if they choose to do so. Personally, I think that's exactly what they should do. The party elite have made it clear they want to ignore the libertarians and treat them like crap so why not force them to take you seriously? Show them that they either start treating people like Ron Paul fairly or they'll go 3rd party and sink the GOP ticket. After Paul sinks Romney in 2012 you can damn well bet the party elite will take their concerns much more seriously in 2016. They won't care about Libertarian concerns until someone makes them care.

[OzzyKP]

Hmm, I don't think he'll go third party. He may endorse Gary Johnson though.

[Lorizael]

Libertarians do science!

Get back to me when Dr. Ron Paul accepts basic facts of biology.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Interesting (re: speculation Ron Paul may do a 3rd Party run):

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/will-ron-paul-run-as-a-third-party-candidate.html

Basically, the idea is that Ron's fear that this could taint his son Rand if Rand decides to run for President under a Republican banner in 2016 will prevent Ron from splitting off from the Republicans.

[onodera]

Interesting (re: speculation Ron Paul may do a 3rd Party run):

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/will-ron-paul-run-as-a-third-party-candidate.html

Basically, the idea is that Ron's fear that this could taint his son Rand if Rand decides to run for President under a Republican banner in 2016 will prevent Ron from splitting off from the Republicans.

Did he name his son after that terrible woman?

[Lorizael]

Wikipedia says no.

Despite his father's libertarian views and strong support for individual rights,[9][10] the novelist Ayn Rand was not the inspiration for Paul's first name; he went by "Randy" while growing up.[11] His wife shortened his name to "Rand".

[giblets]

Media has been trying to orchestrate a Huntsman surge. The guy with minuscule national support, zero ground game, almost no money, and who failed to even get on the AZ, IL, and VA ballots doesn't get the "can't win" label like Ron Paul - he gets 48 hours of fawning press coverage from nearly every major media outlet in the country! Corporate media for the win!

Look for Huntsman to be the big story out of NH. Unconfirmed reports say Diebold programmers have been seen wearing Huntsman T-shirts in the Concord area.

edit: NH media already using late-night vote tallies (~20 or so votes already) to create a Romney v Huntsman narrative. Wouldn't be surpised to see Huntsman magically get 2nd place, with Paul again a close 3rd.

Wonder if New Hampshire votes are counted in secret like the Iowan ones were.

Well, it sounds better than a surge of Santorum.

[notyoueither]

He he.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Why are you objecting to people attempting to see the item in context?

[Felch]

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7394032n

There's the full report.

Not only does the televised report never mention Ron Paul, it wastes time on Michele Bachmann, who isn't even a candidate anymore.