Re: why was this law passed?
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as I see it Frist did this to score brownie points so he can get some nice fat campaign donations (and maybe a bunch of extra votes) when he runs for pres in 2008.
The older (and wiser ??) I get the more convinced I become that no politician in the history of the world has EVER done anything for "moral" reasons alone - there always is some ulterior motive and it usually involves a significant amount of money. Tho perhaps I am a little too cynical.
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I think this is the primary reason. I don't think he will run many ads on the issue, because it just isn't a winner. But the leadership will write bigger checks to him (or at least so he calculates) and he can use that money to run ads to increase his name recognition. Don't forget that he is not really *that* well known because Americans don't follow politics too closely. Some people don't know him at all and others don't know much about what he stands for.
Also, it's not easy to actually ban something and have as little impact on Americans as it is to ban online gambling. Yes we poker players lost our "job" or our primary source of income, but no official American jobs were lost. Imagine, for example, trying to ban B&M casinos now. There would be a huge uproar over how many Americans will lose their job.
The reality is that this legislation was politically advantageous to Frist, and the man has no scruples taking away the liberties and freedoms of others to advance his career. Whether he is moderately intelligent and aware of what he is doing, or just profoundly too stupid to understand the concepts of liberty and freedom, I don't have enough information to speculate on.
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