Libertarian icon Ron Paul has penned an op-ed warning Republicans that support for a federal online gambling ban will cost them the support of younger voters.

On Thursday, US News & World Report published an op-ed by the former Texas congressman warning that any politician who offers public support for the Sheldon Adelson-supported Restoration of America’s Wire Act “is bound to come up with lemons.”

RAWA seeks to reverse the 2011 Department of Justice opinion that the 1961 Wire Act applies to sports betting only. The opinion paved the way for the three current states – Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware – that have authorized intrastate online gambling. RAWA would force these states to scrap their online markets and prevent new states from joining the party.

Paul, who has expressed disdain for RAWA since it was introduced, argued that “young people’s dissatisfaction” with President Obama could allow Republicans to pick up a lot of the youth vote in the 2016 election. But Paul’s conversations with millennial voters have convinced him they are “alienated by the hypocrisy shown by too many conservatives who claim to favor individual liberty, yet support legislation like the iGaming ban because they disapprove of gambling.”