Posted on 12/17/2006 5:37:31 PM PST by neverdem
How about state lotteries, race tracks and bingo games?
I thought it was a pretty stupid thing to make a priority.
GOP lost the Libertarian voters who were disgusted at this and the out-of-control federal spending and massive government. People just want government to stay out of their lives, and big government is big government regardless if it comes from the nanny-state Left or the religious Right.
What is the balance in the account that you need in order to really gamble in the stock market?
His point is that gamblers have not been particularly inclined Democratic in any previous election. This time, one issue caused them all to line up on one side.
I rather thought his point was that "single issue" voters, in the case he cited, those into gambling, feel confident that Democrats will not mess with their penchant for on-line wagering, whereas the Republicans might continue to take away more than their off-shore opportunities already attacked.....
The sex deviates are also a single-issue voter block, and Democrats are notoriously deviant-supportive.
Why do it at all?
I don't like this law as much as the next guy. But voting third party or DEM is positively suicidal. On the issue of gambling alone you are willing to hand over the reins of America to the party of baby killing, terrorist coddling, nuclear tech selling, enviro-socialist traitor maggots?
Brilliant.
Don't worry, there aren't that many issues left the Republican party hasn't gotten its big government hands into.
As to your statement 'On the issue (fill in the blank)' at what point will party faithful finally accept that Republicans could care less about the opinions of the citizens of the respective states and more to the special interests that fill their coffers? They are no better than the Democrats when it comes to liberty and freedoms. They may attack them differently, they may attack ones different than the Democrats, but they are still limiting them unnecessarily
You have a better chance of reforming the GOP than the DEMontraitors. They are still more pro-2nd ammendment, pro-life, pro-war, and pro-freedom than the alternative.
Everytime a DEMon comes to power, the consequences are near irreconciable. We haven't undo ANY of the damages inflicted by Carter, toon, and other traitors. This lousy bill is nothing compared to half the treason and socialism they inflict upon us regularly.
We still have planty of good people out there. They just didn't get voted in the Primaries. That's an issue to take up with the voters.
don't worry... I still voted Rebulican... not that it helped my congressman (Bonilla... who also voted for this bill). I just won't support those repubs in the primaries....
I'm not that thrilled with them when they win elections either.
Thank you. We need to clean house during the Primaries. A shame the voters have decided that these good, conservative men will not represent them as well as greedy RINOs and cowards.
Bump.
My post in October, right after the bill passed. "Considering national-scope elections are now decided by single digit margins (mostly), this issue alone will probably encourage many quasi-conservative swing voters to vote against the party in control. I hate to say it, but I was mad about the provision also......but I do have a moral dilemma with gambling too (I have been successful at poker, but now try refrain from playing). Many swing voters are seemingly devoid of "moral dilemmas", so in my view keeping the majority is more in doubt than before."
I'm still mad myself, but also haven't spent any cash gambling.....online.....
With a name like mine, that's silly. I posted the article because we need to try to understand why the dems took control of Congress. While there were a number of issues, this certainly didn't help.
Rhetorical you. I got to be careful about that. Sorry. :P
Part of the problem is the cowardly and despicable tactic of uppending bills like this to important legislation. That's why the President didn't veto as much. There's no way he's going to veto a port security bill in a time of war because the gambling bill was attached to it.
I posted this article on News/Activism as an editorial. Now it's in the Bloggers & Personal section. Is it hard to figure why the GOP is the stupid party on a supposedly conservative forum espousing limited government?
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