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I don't care about the legality of what he did. It was morally repugnant and I and many others condemmed him from that aspect. He was unfit to be President. He placed himself in a compromising position.

Bennett is a director of Empower America, together with former vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp, former U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Rep. Vin Weber of Minnesota and former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen.

Empower America opposes the proliferation of casino gambling, and its co-chair, Kemp, recently lambasted lawmakers who "pollute our society with a slot machine on every corner."

The group also recently published an "Index of Leading Cultural Indicators" that reported 5.5 million American adults as "problem" or "pathological" gamblers.

When reminded of studies that link heavy gambling to divorce, bankruptcy, domestic abuse and other family problems he has widely decried, Bennett told The Washington Monthly he compared gambling to alcohol. "I view it as drinking," Bennett says. "If you can't handle it, don't do it."

Hypocrite thy name is Bennett.