I rather like Bill Bennett myself, despite the fact that our politics don't agree most of the time. He's intelligent and forward-thinking, especially for a conservative. Many mainstream conservatives, particularly the religious right, don't approve of him anymore because of his penchant for gambling that came out a few years back. He apparently was a fairly high roller in the casinos. I've seen spin that's said the liberal left were the ones who made a big deal of that, but the truth is the religious right has done a far more brutal job of shunning and dissing him since the gambling history began making headlines.