Posted on 12/17/2006 5:37:31 PM PST by neverdem
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Given that the sex deviates vote for Democrats, can we blame the outcome on the faggots and dykes, as Novak's analysis has done for "gamblers"?
The fact that Republicans have nearly ALL abandoned traditional conservative values, it's not difficult to see how they lost.....
I believe in expanding liberties, not legislating them out of existence.
The GOP needs to re-earn my loyalty in the future.
For the next two years, I'll be looking for signs of the Elephants being something other than Democrat Lite.
i dont know how many votes this cost the gop but i do know alot people (myself included) who were seriously angry at this bill and totally blamed it on the republicans. there are so many internet poker players that could have had some impact. the gop is on the complete wrong side of the fence here.
They will make it easy to get the money in, but I'm betting (no pun intended) that getting anything out will be much more difficult. The harder it is to get your money out, the more likely that you won't without either a large win or a large loss.
YOU are comparing apples and oranges.
If congress had passed a sexual deviate bill, there would have been press conferences with all of them telling how they were winning the war on sexual deviancy.
Instead, in the dead of night, they attached the gambling law to the port security bill and passed it, hoping that the gamblers would not notice. Well, the gamblers did.
I know someone that changed his voters registration from Republican to Independent because of this new anti gambling law. The GOP can sometimes be as dumb as dirt when it comes to winning elections. Why do this just before a Mid Term election?
What I do not get is why these Republicans CARE about gambling, internet or not?
What is the ISSUE for them, that they feel the need to legislate here?
The Vice Vote. Sheesh. Probably pornos, too.
Why are the pubbies called the stupid party? Partly because they bought the myth from the 2004 election that they could win if they just appealled to the "values voters."
They're hooked, man. Probably in ways we can't understand. Democrats had lots of support from Vice in South Carolina, for instance. The head of the DNC was the lawyer for the gambling lobby. And gambling is more respectable to admit to than porn.
The repubs where dumb on this. After this happened I called Frists office to express my displeasure. Then I called the White House line and both my Senators.
The term "dumb as rocks... " comes to mind.
I even got a letter back from one of my senators and you can tell he doesn't get it....
Oh well, Party Poker shut out US money players so now I'm losing money on Full Tilt. And use Neteller to easily transfer funds. Stupid law.
What is the ISSUE for them, that they feel the need to legislate here?
It's all about the corruption.
Pretty much all of the big internet poker sites are located offshore, so the politicians weren't getting their usual pound of flesh in the form of bribes and kickbacks from the industry.
That's why you can still bet on horse racing over the internet, and why Indian casinos have sprung up across America like weeds (everyone knows who Jack Abramoff is after all).
The GOP has moved away from the idea of less government. I don't want the government to lay down laws to limit on line gambling when the State of Florida and most States have a Lottery of some kind every day. I hope they remember the sting of defeat.
This new law did absolutely nothing to stop online gambling. I didn't miss a single day of playing, but I did have to switch to a different site. All it did was piss alot of people off.
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