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kohodog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 09:15 PM
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Just thinking, Ayn Rand, Rand Paul
Never made the connection before. What do you think?
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Capitalocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 09:19 PM
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1. His name is Randy.
He changed his nickname because he loves him some Ayn Rand.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 09:44 PM
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3. His father was an idiot. n/t
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Capitalocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 09:47 PM
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4. Was?
When did that change?
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 10:10 PM
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6. You got me there.
He was pretty nuts when he named his kid, though.
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 10:19 PM
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7. +100000
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white_wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 09:50 PM
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5. In all fairness, his foreign polcy isn't too bad.
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Capitalocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-11 05:27 PM
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12. He comes to more or less the right answer
even though he takes the wrong path to get there (isolationism instead of pacifism).

His son, not so much.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 09:28 PM
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2. Dont forget Ayn Ryan
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 10:28 PM
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8. "Randy" was a popular name in the for boys in the 60s.
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Fuddnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 10:46 PM
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9. And don't forget Rand-McNally!
They'll have you going in circles.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 10:49 PM
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10. I heard his father asked about this, on C-Span, maybe? He said there's no connection, that Rand's
name is Randall.
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white_wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 10:50 PM
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11. That is correct. Thom Hartmann asked him as well.
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