Dubya
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- Dec 29, 2012
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What Rands political orientations were are unimportant. What is important is that conservative politicians and economists today seem to be largely inspired by her writings. I disagree with your assertion that she wasn't a conservative, but I am just pointing at that is doesn't actually matter. You are committing a genetic fallacy of sorts in thinking it matters.
Ayn Rand is more like someone a libertarian, like Greenspan, would follow and not a conservative who knew about the woman. The woman's behavior in her life would disgust the average conservative and she certainly disgusts me. Since the majority of conservatives are Christian, they aren't going to approve of Ayn Rand. The ones that do more than likely have never examined her and just jumped on the bandwagon.
Ryan (R) apparently didn't get the memo until he caved to the catholic church after they called him on his Randian budget
I don't expect anything good coming out of Paul Ryan, though I believe the Republican Party does.