Tilting at these social windmills will only lead the GOP down another blind alley. I well remember 2006, when the Republican congressional leadership rammed through a ban on internet poker instead of using their political capital on things that actually mattered.
A lot of conservatives pay lip service to getting government out of people’s lives, until it comes to some pet social issue. Don’t like gambling? Then don’t gamble. Nobody’s forcing you to. But whether someone else gambles is not your decision to make—or at least shouldn’t be.
Per my recommendation for making gambling debts unenforceable, I am getting the government out of people's lives, except to the extent that organized crime trying to collect gambling debts constitute a quasi government power that should also be gotten out of people's lives.
ALOT of people were mad about the repubs trying to ban online gaming. I think it’s one of the reasons they lost their majority. This is a losing issue for the GOP. I hope they learned their leason last time.