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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLA Times: Paul Ryan loved Ayn Rand, before he said he didn't
Back in 2005, an up-and-coming lawmaker named Paul Ryan credited the polemical novelist and libertarian Ayn Rand as a central inspiration for his entry into public life. Ryan toiled in those days in relative obscurity, a well-respected but low-profile member of the House of Representatives.
By the spring of 2012, the boyish congressman had become a Republican star, widely named as a possible vice presidential pick. He also had become considerably less comfortable being linked to the controversial Rand, an atheist with a tartly Darwinian world view.
As Ryan and the Republicans look to define the new vice presidential choices brand, part of the commentary will be about just how Randian (read: unsympathetic to the weak) the candidate really is.
Ayn (rhymes with fine) Rand wrote the bestselling Atlas Shrugged. She also encouraged the worlds makers to pursue rational self interest as the highest moral purpose of [one's] life, while giving little care to the nefarious takers.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-vp-paul-ryan-ayn-rand-20120811,0,1175099.story
By the spring of 2012, the boyish congressman had become a Republican star, widely named as a possible vice presidential pick. He also had become considerably less comfortable being linked to the controversial Rand, an atheist with a tartly Darwinian world view.
As Ryan and the Republicans look to define the new vice presidential choices brand, part of the commentary will be about just how Randian (read: unsympathetic to the weak) the candidate really is.
Ayn (rhymes with fine) Rand wrote the bestselling Atlas Shrugged. She also encouraged the worlds makers to pursue rational self interest as the highest moral purpose of [one's] life, while giving little care to the nefarious takers.
...
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-vp-paul-ryan-ayn-rand-20120811,0,1175099.story
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LA Times: Paul Ryan loved Ayn Rand, before he said he didn't (Original Post)
Junkdrawer
Aug 2012
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DippyDem
(659 posts)1. Paul Rand shrugged and collected Social Security..
Just as Ayn Rand did!
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)2. R#4 & K nt
WillyT
(72,631 posts)3. Off To The Greatest Page !!!
& Rec !!!
Hydra
(14,459 posts)4. Lots of the Catholics I used to pew with loved social darwinism
"Let the poor get a job- I have one!" could have been their motto.
Jesus is just a get out of jail free card.