If ever there was an issue that Republicans could rally around, this should be it.
Republican principles advocate limited government intrusion into the lives of the American people.
Republican candidates campaign on the ideas of restraining Big Brother. Republicans have been given a majority in the U.S. Congress because the American people want some control over the massive power of the federal government. Americans loudly expressed their opposition to the proposed federal banking regulations, called Know Your Customer, that would have established massive federal data bank profiles on every bank customer. So huge was the outcry that the FDIC started retreating from the issue almost from the day the scheme was announced. In fact, nearly every effort to implement a national Identification system has been met with massive opposition.