As mentioned in other articles written about the To Bet a
Man Square Massacre, I am a Ronald Reagan conservative. Nobody is more dismayed by the Prohibition of
the 21st Century than I am. I
painfully acknowledge that the Reagan Revolution has been hijacked by the Big
Brother Devolution, which has lead to the basic civil right to place a bet
having been infringed upon.
That is unless you want to play bingo in a church hall or
bet on the No. 4 horse in the second race. The insurgents in the conservative
movement know who butters their bread. John Kyl and Bill Frist may be
hypocritical but they are not stupid. Every phony has his price.
What attracted me to the Conservative Movement more than
anything else was the foundation of personal responsibility and accountability.
The Reagan Revolution saw this across the board whether it was holding
convicted criminals accountable, allowing the successful to keep more of their
income and by believing the individual and private sector always thrive more
without government interference.
Deregulation was commonplace. Most importantly, my brand
of conservatism believed in creating new streams of tax revenue. This was in
lieu of raising taxes on the rich, defining the wealthy as anyone who makes one
dollar more than I do.
In the Baptist Press,
Bill Frist wrote a first person account why he knows how to spend your
money more responsibly than you do.
The father of the Big Brother movement apparently wants to
replace the first letter in his last name with “Ch” because he appoints himself
the Savior of you and me. Conservatism’s
bastard child aimlessly scribbled, “People who gamble
online are almost twice as likely to become problem gamblers as those who
gamble in other places. Problem gambling destroys lives and families.”
Frist has chosen not to revive Reaganism, but McCarthyism.
Apparently if you want to bet a four-team $20 parlay, you
are destroying your family. Clearly your
values are not as family friendly as that of Frist and Thomas Foley. Send
perverted messages to minors on a computer and Big Brother wants to cover it
up. Bet lunch money on a baseball game and Frist wants to lock you up.
I will be the first to admit, most Americans do not put
the utmost priority on their right to gamble, though I’d venture to say the
number of enraged is significantly higher than far right wing periphery
realizes.
The Big Brother conservatives believe in personal
responsibility alright. Your family values are their personal responsibility.
Every opinion poll known to mankind confirms American
families believe Frist has failed miserably in leading his party in the Senate.
Undeterred, he still believes government needs to be the caretaker of your
family. You are too dim-witted to know online gambling is the greatest affront
to the American family since that effeminate dinosaur Barney started
emasculating our children thanks to tax supported PBS.
Legalizing and taxing online gambling is the perfect
marriage for true conservatives. However the beliefs in personal responsibility
and new forms of tax revenue have been sabotaged.
The To Bet a Man Square Massacre may not be the reason
that Frist and his cronies have approval ratings that hover around the Duke
football team’s winning percentage. But
his attack on your rights under the subterfuge of family values is at the very
least symbolic of the crisis he created. Genuine conservatives, those who
should be his core supporters, believe that Frist and Kyl are, how can I say
this nicely—self righteous idiots whose subversive skullduggery has
incapacitated the movement they pretend to represent.
Ronald Reagan must be turning over in his grave. I’d bet on it, but Jesus Frist won’t let me.
Joe Duffy, a former Young Republican Executive Board
member is now CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com,
which conservatively speaking is the premier source for sports
gambling information.