Paul Ryan wants to have Ayn Rand's baby

[swag]

http://www.atlassociety.org/ele/blog/2012/04/30/paul-ryan-and-ayn-rands-ideas-hot-seat-again

(1:45) I just want to speak to you a little bit about Ayn Rand and what she meant to me in my life and [in] the fight we’re engaged here in Congress. I grew up on Ayn Rand, that’s what I tell people..you know everybody does their soul-searching, and trying to find out who they are and what they believe, and you learn about yourself.

(2:01) I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff. We start with Atlas Shrugged. People tell me I need to start with The Fountainhead then go to Atlas Shrugged [laughter]. There’s a big debate about that. We go to Fountainhead, but then we move on, and we require Mises and Hayek as well.

(3: 21) It’s so important that we go back to our roots to look at Ayn Rand’s vision, her writings, to see what our girding, under-grounding [sic] principles are. I always go back to, you know, Francisco d’Anconia’s speech (at Bill Taggart’s wedding) on money when I think about monetary policy. And then I go to the 64-page John Galt speech, you know, on the radio at the end, and go back to a lot of other things that she did, to try and make sure that I can check my premises so that I know that what I’m believing and doing and advancing are square with the key principles of individualism…

(6:53) Is this an easy fight? Absolutely not…But if we’re going to actually win this we need to make sure that we’re solid on premises, that our principles are well-defended, and if want to go and articulately defend these principles and what they mean to our society, what they mean for the trends that we set internationally, we have to go back to Ayn Rand. Because there is no better place to find the moral case for capitalism and individualism than through Ayn Rand’s writings and works.

[ann---]

1. I thought he did

already and his name is Romney.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. He may pleasure himself by fantasizing

about being with her in all kinds of kinky positions--BDSM in a Brooks Brothers suit.

"Oh, Ayn, you naughty lady...you're so cruel--stop it some more!"

[jade3000]

3. Why do I confuse Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, and Ayn Rand?

Ok, I added Ayn Rand just for the fun of it. But P. Ryan & R. Paul were definitely confusing to me for a while ... similar names and dedication to ideology over everything.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

4. It's the cult of Ayn Rand. They're whole world view is polluted by her selfish nonsense. nt