Comments on: Rob McNealy Kicks Off Campaign for Colorado Congressional District 6

By: Virginia

Virginia — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:29:44 +0000

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.

By: travis

travis — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:53:54 +0000

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.”

By: travis

travis — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:48:49 +0000

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.

By: Joshau Sciarrino

Joshau Sciarrino — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:15:16 +0000

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.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:52:20 +0000

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.

By: Dave Nalle

Dave Nalle — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:50:15 +0000

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