It's Official - Republican Platform anti Poker

Tempted to rant, but I'll let their own hypocritical words speak for themselves. Note: they do not call for outlawing lotteries, betting on horse-racing or fantasy football they only want to restore the previous interpretation of the Wire Act.

Quote:

Making the Internet Family-Friendly Millions of Americans suffer from problem or pathological gambling that can destroy families. We support the prohibition of gambling of the Internet and call for reversal of the Justice Department's decision distorting the formerly accepted meaning of the Wire Act that could open the door to Internet betting. The Internet must be made safe for children.

Rest of platform here if you have the stomach for it.
http://www.gop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2012GOPPlatform.pdf

Think of the children!

How is this any different than the DNCs position?

On-line Poker will certainly not determine my choice in voting, either way ... our future and country's future is more important.

Fortunately Mitt Romney makes it very easy for me to do whatever necessary to vote against him.

DNC's platform not determined yet. Let you know when it is.

Granted on-line poker is not everything. It's also not the only thing they want to control.

But it would be nice if they spent less time trying to control everyone's life and more on fixing the real problems we have. It's too bad the nanny-staters have hi-jacked the party poker so that fiscal conservatives have to hold their noses and cross their fingers to vote Republican.

They claim to want to appeal to women and young people, I don't see this platform as a way to do it.

I also hate hypocrisy--but that applies to both sides. What we need is a viable third party poker and throw these bums out.

Agree 100%!

+1 CYA

There are much more important things to worry about with the RNC platform.
Among which is a complete ban on abortions regardless of rape, incest, or a woman's health.

I hold little hope for legalized Poker from people with such narrow minds.

Hey, no common sense allowed here.

+1

make the internet children friendly....

if only they'd invent some type of parental controls (oh wait)

Yea we definitely gotta stop kids from downloading and playing a card game for free, seeing as how kids cant deposit without stealing from parents (which is far more serious) Nevermind if they stumble onto a (100% legal) sites showing a woman being violated by a horse or sites with death footage. I can see how poker can be much more traumatizing

Just like any other site showing mature content, there are age restictions. Underage exposure should not even be involved in the debate

edit: Don't let kids stumble upon poker sites and become poker players when they grow up. Let them stumble across porn and become pornstars.

+a million

Unless they're now giving out credit cards to 12 year olds I don't understand that statement at all.

God I feel sorry for your country sometimes. Just leave people the **** alone.

I can't imagine a future for the children of this country if this platform is the way that their parents think. Individuals first, then institutions. Not institutions restricting individuals. They must want to institutionalize the country. Bad idea.

I also must lol at how americans choice political parties.

Granted in my country its a bit worse seeing as ppl vote based on race of the candidates.

Article on the GOP2012 anti-poker platform: http://www.lvrj.com/business/plank-i...168055786.html

Like everything else which president sits in the WH does not matter. You have to get this through congress and those control freaks with their casino buddies are not about to let you have some good old fashion American fun. No way no how.

Excellent article on quadjacks:

http://quadjacks.com/2012/08/29/the-...-specifically/

In the US, yes they are.

What?

I think hes referring to the debit card they have that you can give your kids. You can give them an allowance from your own acct. They have limited access and definitely aren't usable for intl transactions.

edit: here http://www.payjr.com/

This is certainly not the death knell of our fight. It's unfortunate that so much ignorance still abounds about poker and it's clear distinctions from other forms of gambling, but it just means we must redouble our efforts to educate our leaders and the public in general.

Neither can it be cause to jump on the Democratic Party bandwagon, for even if there is no anti poker plank in their platform, they are no more engaged in our struggle that the GOP.

We should just take this as an indication that there is more work to be done, and continue the fight with positive attitudes. We still have heros in the GOP and we need them there, we just need to earn the support of some more

Right you are Wally, the Dems aren't helping one bit that I can see. We just need to keep trying to convince the pro-business sect that this is good for everyone

It sure doesn't seem like I'm living in a free country sometimes. I do realize that some countries have it worse but this is still a shame.

you know the real change happens at the primary level, we take away the party's power by ousting members of our own preferred party poker for failure

Church!

I knew kids who have gotten credit cards, at the age of 16. They just lie about their age and they get one, credit card comps never check the SSN that is on it, to find out how old one is applying to get a credit card.

The bolded part is absolutely not true. I worked for a credit card company for 11 years.

A few sneak through but most would not.

As long as the Indian tribes can continue the brick and mortar gambling all is well. What the hell is the matter with these guys.

this is just 100% false

I'm 21 w/a minor history of credit (only good) , parents have a perfect credit rating and I can't even get a card bc there being so strict nowadays

Well not the credit card company you worked for.. But i did read up, most just look over the date, then file it in the trashcan.
My parents had some problems with a credit card company 7 years ago, was looking up on how to deal with them when i ran into that.
The credit card company could not prove that the card was their's, they did not even have the SSN that was used on file.

Really, which credit card company you applying to? Also don't forget the bail out the gov gave banks and credit card company's, so it might be a bit harder to get a credit card.
10 to 1 i can get a credit card without no problem, i've not applied for one yet. I've got 0 for credit history.

I will eventually read all posts here - and I swore I would try to stay away from political posts in the forum, since the views swing so broadly in both directions - but it is an amazing thing to see. American politics in the present state, and especially the American support of politicians.

How Mitt Romney can be seen as a "savior", its like science fiction..... And how more people cannot feel as Dakota does, I cant understand. It IS easy to NOT want this guy in the most powerful seat in US politics.....


Yet so many seem to want it....

(where is the "scratch my head in wonder" smiley?)

Yea it is quite depressing - especially since some of my immediate family members are Romney supporters.

Yep, that is an issue with me as well. Never before have politics, or my political views, been such a dividing factor in my family. The hard part for me is, when asked my political opinion, I try to just get away with "hey, lets just vote in the booth and get along here". But, no, I cant seem to.

I know some family members are totally on the other side politically, and they seem to be aggressively pursuing the conflict in discussion. The weird thing is, we are many members on both sides, and the Republican side - at least in my family, sadly enough - is more aggressive than I have ever experienced..... and not really willing to live and let live..... real weird and sad

Yep - I had to stop a conversation with my brother because his views were scaring me - and I could tell he had no respect for mine. I don't want to change my opinion of him and vice versa so I guess it is a discussion we just can't have.

How anyone can support either one is beyond me unless it's a case of the lesser of two evils.

On the credit card thing, I had to sign for my son to get his first card and it had a very small limit; so even if he had maxed it out, it wasn't life changing.