TheEngineer
05-30-2007, 12:15 AM
After reading Autobet's letter to the DNC, I figured I'd write a letter to the RNC. Here it is:
Mr. Michael Duncan
RNC Chairman
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
Dear Mr. Duncan:
As a fellow Republican, I am writing to express my concern that the Republican Party has alienated many paleoconservatives, like myself, and other traditional Republicans by abandoning its limited government roots in favor of big government social conservatism. The growth of the federal government since 2001 is apparent in many areas. A particularly troubling area is in the party’s drive for federal prohibition of Internet poker, as this is symptomatic of a larger cultural issue within the party with regard to individual freedoms. While this legislation of values may seem okay to some right now, the tremendous power we are giving the federal government over our personal decisions cannot be good for any of us who care about freedom, be it religious or personal.
Congressional Republicans embraced the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), a draconian law that enables the federal government to virtually peer into the windows of law-abiding Americans to see if they are…gasp!… playing online games in the privacy of their own homes. Why? Republicans no longer trust Americans to make their own decisions? We now require the federal government to make these choices for us? Sorry, but there is already a party that purports to do that. Our party professed to believe that the government that governed best governed least. We should not become second-rate Democrats who look to Washington for answers, especially concerning our personal choices within our own homes. I feel this nanny-statist attitude of many congressional Republicans contributed to our loss in the last election, and I feel we will continue to lose elections if we tell Americans we do not trust them.
Big government solutions to social issues, either from LBJ or GWB, are not conservative. Limited government is just that…limited. There is nothing conservative about big government, regardless of how much one loves the laws it passes. Please help our party rediscover its roots. Support individual freedom and limited government. You can help by rejecting calls to include language in the 2008 Republican Party Platform calling for federal legislation prohibiting Internet poker.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
TheEngineer
Mr. Michael Duncan
RNC Chairman
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
Dear Mr. Duncan:
As a fellow Republican, I am writing to express my concern that the Republican Party has alienated many paleoconservatives, like myself, and other traditional Republicans by abandoning its limited government roots in favor of big government social conservatism. The growth of the federal government since 2001 is apparent in many areas. A particularly troubling area is in the party’s drive for federal prohibition of Internet poker, as this is symptomatic of a larger cultural issue within the party with regard to individual freedoms. While this legislation of values may seem okay to some right now, the tremendous power we are giving the federal government over our personal decisions cannot be good for any of us who care about freedom, be it religious or personal.
Congressional Republicans embraced the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), a draconian law that enables the federal government to virtually peer into the windows of law-abiding Americans to see if they are…gasp!… playing online games in the privacy of their own homes. Why? Republicans no longer trust Americans to make their own decisions? We now require the federal government to make these choices for us? Sorry, but there is already a party that purports to do that. Our party professed to believe that the government that governed best governed least. We should not become second-rate Democrats who look to Washington for answers, especially concerning our personal choices within our own homes. I feel this nanny-statist attitude of many congressional Republicans contributed to our loss in the last election, and I feel we will continue to lose elections if we tell Americans we do not trust them.
Big government solutions to social issues, either from LBJ or GWB, are not conservative. Limited government is just that…limited. There is nothing conservative about big government, regardless of how much one loves the laws it passes. Please help our party rediscover its roots. Support individual freedom and limited government. You can help by rejecting calls to include language in the 2008 Republican Party Platform calling for federal legislation prohibiting Internet poker.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
TheEngineer