True, Peter Schiff could be a great supporter! The harder thing would be to make him understand how reliable bitcoins are.
And I wouldn't be much surprised if he just fails to understand it. Take for example the Mises institute. As far as I know, they haven't yet published anything on bitcoins, although bitcoin is practically a grass-root manifestation of everything they defend in terms of money. That's just because they don't get the fact that particular numbers may be a scarce commodity themselves, and not only a representation of something else. So they keep asking "but it's not backed by anything?", without realizing that gold itself is not backed by anything either.
Anyway, all I'm saying is that sometimes it's hard to convince non-geek gold-worshipers of the advantages of bitcoins.
Yes this seems to be a big problem. It seems any person you are talking to has to have an extraordinarily open mind or they won't 'get' bitcoin unless they are a geek libertarian who spent their formative years with Napster.
Perhaps it would be useful information if we had a demographic breakdown of the current members of this forum. Data like:
-age
-gender (are there any females on here yet?)
-interests
-profession
-political views
-geography
-education
Once we know who already supports bitcoin, then we can formulate a plan to go after the rest of the planet who are just like us.