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Rob McNealy Kicks Off Campaign for Colorado Congressional District 6

by Live Free | 7:12 pm, December 4, 2009 | 6 Comments

Rob McNealy kicked off his campaign for United State Congress to represent Colorado Congressional District 6 this week a the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce.  Rob McNealy will be challenging Republican incumbent Mike Coffman for the 2010 election.

Here’s the interesting part: Rob McNealy is running as a Libertarian candidate for Congress.

Yes, a Libertarian.

I attended his campaign kickoff since he’s a personal friend of mine.  Rob has spoken at Colorado Teaparties and has proclaimed the Constitution is his guide to being successful as a Congressman.  What most people, or at least those with any inkling of conservative leaning will realize as they look at issues facing our nation is that they have a very libertarian slant.  We used the little ‘l’ on purpose so as not to threaten people with being placed into the big ‘L’ camp.

In addition to being a business owner, Rob is somewhat a big deal on the social media scene, so it was fitting that his formal announcement was via Twitter, a first as far as I know.

Rob McNealy's Campaign Announcement via Twitter

Rob McNealy's Campaign Announcement via Twitter

After the formal announcement, which was streaming live on UStream, Rob fielded questions from the 50 person audience and the Internet.  Rob’s ability to address and articulate issues facing our nation within a Constitutional framework are what makes him a great candidate for Congress.

The campaign is fully aware of the challenges facing a third party candidate and promised to have a lot in store for the people of Colorado throughout the next year to make him a credible challenge to Mike Coffman and any Democratic challengers.

For more information visit:

VoteMcNealy.com

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  1.   Dave Nalle
      December 6th, 2009 @ 1:50 pm

    It’s unfortunate he’s running as a Libertarian. He’d make a great Republican primary challenger for Coffman. McNealy is the kind of candidate who’d have a real chance of being elected if he hadn’t chained himself to the anchor which is the Libertarian Party.

    Dave

  2.   Paul
      December 12th, 2009 @ 10:52 pm

    It’s great the folks in CD 6 will have a choice of a third party candidate in the upcoming election. I do disagree with Dave that Rob would make a good Republican candidate. Rob favors no wars, fiscal responsibility and individual freedom. The Republicans as I recall favor both wars, government bailouts, massive deficits, massive medicare, defense of marriage act and the Patriot Act. My take on Rob’s comments at the kick off party he supports none of these blunders.

  3.   Joshau Sciarrino
      December 13th, 2009 @ 12:15 pm

    I’m going to have to agree with Dave on this on. He would make a great Republican.

    Most voters are uninformed and only vote Democrat/Republican because they always have.

    Think a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Or just think Ron Paul. He votes Libertarian on a lot of issues (like 90% of the time, last time I checked).

    I wish McNealy the best and will be voting for him when I move to Colorado (if I live in District 6).

    It’s extremely difficult to get over America’s “two-party” system mindset. Maybe Rob should just lead the libertarian party to create the 3 party system?

    At the end of the day, persistence and money are key. Good luck with both. :)

  4.   travis
      December 13th, 2009 @ 6:48 pm

    Joshua, I think the real hurdle for the Libertarian Party becoming a significant challenger to the Republicans and Democrats is the perception that they aren’t serious. Voters may be uninformed, but what do they find when they *do* open their eyes and look at the Libertarian Party as an alternative? A bunch of stoners and kooks with a rigid, intolerant, puerile political dogma they parrot from books they have read without comprehending. Childish fantasists who would rather castigate potential recruits for their supposed ideological impurity than actually persuading them to join. And then said Libertarians whine like little girls who never get the pretty pony of electoral significance, and ascribe their failure to gain traction with voters to those morons not knowing what’s good for them and to the machinations of sinister major-party conspiracies – rather than to their own juvenile ideas and general off-putting behavior. If Libertarians *want* to be influential and to be taken seriously, and to actually earn offices higher than dogcatcher, I rarely see any evidence of it. They seem to me to relish their failure, in fact, which is understandable given that it allows them to impotently throw bombs at the other parties – actually having to govern would be a lot more work, and work is something to be avoided when you’d rather be loafing in mom’s basement, smoking dope all day and whining in online circle-jerks about how unfair it is that the world doesn’t see the brilliant, unquestionable wisdom and goodness of the pearls of undigested political genius they barf up in blog posts and forum comments.

    How’s that for a stereotype?

    Libertarians ought to be a little more circumspect about casually throwing around stereotypes of the other parties’ members and policies, given the baggage they carry themselves. Especially if they, you know, actually want to *grow* their party by recruiting from the others.

  5.   travis
      December 13th, 2009 @ 6:53 pm

    And here’s a little challenge for Libertarians, if any care to respond: try addressing the substance of my little illustration, rather than jerking your knees and calling me a “neocon”, “warmonger”, “rethuglikkkan”, “statist”, or some other vacuous epithet.

    Here’s the core of one possible reply: “Yes, it’s too bad that others have that negative impression of Libertarians, and we need to work hard to change that view and earn the trust of voters if we expect them to take us and our platform seriously.”

  6.   Virginia
      December 15th, 2009 @ 7:29 pm

    I am happy to see McNealy running as a viable candidate. There are many independents in CD6 who are socially tolerant yet fiscally conservative. Voting for a Democrat makes me cringe because of the crazy spending they’re doing; voting for a Republican makes me feel guilty about potentially taking rights away from people who are homosexual, pro-choice or of minority status. Be sure about this, Rob McNealy has my vote.

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