the only actual mainstream politician who has defended wikileaks is ron paul. but then he goes farther and starts to talk about why the cables are important, or what they actually show about how we conduct our foreign policy. i realize that ron paul is too coherent to make sense to people. but at a minimum you've got to understand that if you throw down a list of tea partiers, wingnuts, and so on, and you've got sarah palin and ron paul on that list, you have to deal with the fact that they have entirely different politics, even as they overlap a bit. at any rate, i want you to bring me someone from the actual practicing political left - a congressperson, a governor, in short, a successful politician - who would take a position like that publicly.