Schiff appeared on the Daily Show last night for an entertaining interview with liberal comedian John Stewart. I think this is additional proof to the wide appeal of the libertarian movement that liberals like Stewart and others can embrace (or at least act friendly toward) the message of freedom that Schiff and Ron Paul espouse.
In a particularly interesting part of the conversation, Schiff indicates a possible run for Senate against Chris Dodd.
Stewart: Are you running for office? something?
Schiff: Well I am considering potentially running for Senate in my home state of Connecticut.
Stewart: The nutmeg state! Well, you’d be be up against Dodd. Are you going against Dodd?
Schiff: That’d be the most attractive part about running.
Stewart: To go up against Dodd?
Schiff: To send him home. He’s been living in the Senate his whole life. He thinks he’s in the House of Lords.
Stewart: Listen he’s got a a very nice house. I happen to know he got a good deal on his mortgage as well.
Schiff: I think the guy who gave him that deal was just indicted.
The idea of Schiff running for Senate has a lot of people talking, which includes reports from Reuters, a widely read Connecticut political blog, lewrockwell.com, and of course his grassroots central supporters. As reported in the Reuters article, Peter is meeting with the Republican party to determine whether they would support someone of his political persuasion - they would really be shooting themselves in the foot if they do not. All in all my guess is that the odds are greater than 50% that Schiff ends up running. Even if he cannot win, the debates with Dodd would be loads of entertainment.
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