It won't be Lieberman. Or at least it better not be Lieberman. I wish he'd pick Chris Dodd.

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I'm amazed how staunch Democrats still find it necessary to attack Ron Paul even though he dropped out of the race a good while back. I guess some people still fear the truth. You don't hear any of the staunch Republicans trying to smear the name of Bill Richardson or Chris Dodd.

Hey, ho, whoa there pal -- I'm attacking the piece he's using as promotional material, and even that was in response to your video aimed at me (from a Campaign for Liberty candidate).

I like the guy himself, and I wish him well in his quest to remake the Republican party from the inside. I just didn't think this was a particularly good foot to start off with, seing how many factual inaccuracies there are, that lean dangerously close to making it propaganda.

Two key changes would be needed to correct my issues with this video: don't try to redefine "left" and "right" to suit your own needs (the point he makes can be made if he replaced right and left with libertarian and authoritarian), and second you have to replace the redefinition of "republic", and just say that there's a potential for that tyranny of the majority thing in our democracy if we abandon Constitutional limits on the power of government.

Other than that, I liked the thing, but it doesn't need to try to redefine words to suit its purposes in order to make its point about limiting the power of government.

I'm amazed how staunch Democrats still find it necessary to attack Ron Paul even though he dropped out of the race a good while back. I guess some people still fear the truth. You don't hear any of the staunch Republicans trying to smear the name of Bill Richardson or Chris Dodd.

I enjoyed this video. I vote to *promote in this video Democracy!

The liberal blogs are all sending out "call your representatives, NOW" messages.

Kos had a conspicuously brief comment on it:

When we started this "netroots" thing, we worked to get "more and better Democrats" elected. At first, we focused on the "more" part. This year, we're focusing a bit more on the "better" part. And in 2010, we'll have enough Democrats in the House to exclusively focus on the "better" part.

That means primary challenges. And as we decide who to take on, let it be known that this FISA vote will loom large. Voting to give telecommunication companies retroactive immunity may not guarantee a primary challenge, but it will definitely loom large.

We kicked Joe Lieberman out of the caucus. We got rid of Al Wynn this year. Those were test runs, so to speak. We've got a lot more of that ready to unleash in 2010.

We're going to have to count on the Ron Pauls, the Dennis Kuciniches, Chris Dodds, Russ Feingolds, Robert Wexlers, and Pat Leahys to pull out some sort of gambit to block this (again).

It's shameful that this is being done, and that they're trying to give themselves immunity, when there's not likely to be a court decision that penalizes anyone for it in a meaningful way. Hell, no one was going to wind up charged with treason for betraying their oath to the Constitution.

We'd just fine AT&T a month's profit from iPhone service, and say "justice served."

At least that way, it'd be on the record as being something the government is still saying is against the law, rather than just written on some piece of hide stretched out in a display case in DC.

If there are any sifters out there who feel this should be stopped, please, call your representatives, for numbers, go here.

Has VideoSift turned into the unoficial video headquarters for the Ron Paul campaign? Every day I see another sifted video about this dude. There's still about 20 other presidential candidates out there, but you wouldn't know that from VideoSift. Sorry, but I gotta downvote this. Personally I'm a Chris Dodd man, and his candidacy has about as much of a chance as Ron Paul's, but what does that got to do with the price of tomatoes?

BTW, has Ron Paul returned any of the campaign contributions from white nationalists including NEO-NAZI Don Black, founder of Stormfront? Hey, I understand that campaigns can't control where their contributions come from, but if they're going to mull over returning his money when any other candidate with common sense would know better simply speaks volumes to me.