While Bennett HAS done a number of laudatory things for the culture, he has been a DC "hanger-on" for some time, accepting what amount to high 6 figure sinecures at conservative think tanks to permit him to write and speak on virtue and morality. Tough life!
By holding himself ABOVE the rest of us, he volunteered to wear a target on his chest. Now that he's taken a hit, his complaints about it ring hollow.
I play poker with friends when I can and once gambled in Vegas (not at Bennett's level as I certainly don't have his resources). Because I never authored a "Book of Virtues," nobody really cares.
ANOTHER chink in the guy's armor is his support for the continuation of a tyrannical income tax system and -- as Drug Czar -- growth of an increasingly intrusive juggernaut state.
How "virtuous" is that??
Those of us who are Catholics do not regard gambling as an intrinsically immoral act. We would only regard it as a vice where it causes evil results. Why is it hypocritical for Bennett to gamble?
Actually, I never heard him complain. I'm the one complaining.
And he was the drug czar, not the gambling czar, right?