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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Ayn Rand ticket: Reward the rich - Enslave the working class - Blame the poor.
Hang it around their necks.
No Democratic spokesperson should go on any show without mentioning the fact that the Romney and Ryan Budget is the Ayn Rand budget from the Ayn Rand ticket, and doesn't contain one Christian thought.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)I agree 100%.
blm
(113,091 posts).
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)GentryDixon
(2,958 posts)toddwv
(2,830 posts)whose entire base of ideas on how to run a country comes from a work of fiction.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)Ayn Rand couldn't even manage plausible fiction.
I found it heartening to know that even she grew out of it though- She drew Medicare and SSI after poisoning the world with her hate.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)blm
(113,091 posts).
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)was an intellectual amateur and self promoter. Anyone who quotes Ayn Rand exposes themselves as an economic and philosophical illiterate.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Just dub it over Mitt's stupid voice in any of a hundred inane speeches that Romney gives, then put it on YouTube -- bam! -- instant classic!!
Ryan looks like Ichabod Crane, so there's another idea for an ad.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)Both of them espouse the dogmas of their respective Christian faiths. Ayn Rand wouldn't give the time of day to either man, being as they're theists and want to use that as a basis for making decisions and governing, in addition to the fact that they're both using semi-Objectivist phrasing to paper over what is essentially crony capitalism, i.e. Feudalism.
blm
(113,091 posts)Religion is always the concealment cover of choice. Right next to the flag.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)They at least renounce wealth.
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)blm
(113,091 posts)heh