[NativeNewYorker]

Politics of personal destruction never goes out of style, does it?

As vices go, this is fairly harmless, given he's not impairing his family's finances.

I assume there's an inside-the-beltway reason this is coming out now...perhaps to keep him out of a W2 administration?

[JFC]

Witch Hunt. Liberals are in a tail spin.

[Callahan]

The lefties hate Bennett because he can come across as sanctimonious. He had to know this would come out. It's funny to me, how many devout Catholics are gamblers. I got to the Italian festival sponsored by the local diocese and people are betting up a storm. It's wierd to me because my (Methodist) parents hate gambling and think it a massive character flaw. For years I couldn't bring myself to stick a quarter in a Pac Man machine because they ingrained in me that even that was a waste of money

[RAT Patrol]

Maybe he should just say that he is participating in voluntary taxation "for the children" or something. LOL

Actually, I hope he is embarrassed by this exposure and quits. That's doesn't make anything he's said in the past false. Truth is truth, regardless of the messenger.

[Happy2BMe]

"I assume there's an inside-the-beltway reason this is coming out now...perhaps to keep him out of a W2 administration?"

Methinks ye be onto the trail of the monster, me lad.

My wife and I get sucked into the casino way to often - it's a hard habit to break.

But I wouldn't want to know it if Bill were out squandering big money in Vegas in his off time as the Sec of Ed. - it just wouldn't set right with me.

True it's his money.

You just can't depend on ANY gubberment (or for that matter anyone) public figure as a role model beyond reproach anymore. For that matter - reproach isn't even considered anymore in a morally deficient society, irregardless of what brand or label of political party one might wear.