Ryan quote on Rand

[redandguilty]

With all the attention on the shift in Paul Ryan's take on Ayn Rand, this quote says, to me, that he was being selective about which of her ideas he was a fan of. I find it difficult to believe this can be attributed to a lack of understanding. (I applied the bold font to the quote below.)


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/opinion/ayn-rand-wouldnt-approve-of-paul-ryan.html

EARLY in his Congressional career, Paul D. Ryan, the Wisconsin representative and presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee, would give out copies of Ayn Rand?s book ?Atlas Shrugged? as Christmas presents. He described the novelist of heroic capitalism as ?the reason I got into public service.?

 

[tinselwolverine]

I wonder how Stanford is going to do this season without Luck.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I wonder how Stanford is going to do this season without Luck.

Yart, yart...

The author is an associate professor at Stanford.

Just like Catholic liberal politicians are constantly on a tight rope with the economically liberal aspects of Catholicism they embrace and the socially conservative aspects...not so much...conservative politicians, whenever referring to Ayn Rand, are in the same boat.

And how about them for three mixed metaphors, huh?

 

[Thumb]

Curious that criticism from his church's leaders is what made him do an about face.

He almost got caught having a mind of his own.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Curious that criticism from his church's leaders is what made him do an about face.

He almost got caught having a mind of his own.

And THAT -

...that is a dangerous thing...

 

[redandguilty]

And THAT -

...that is a dangerous thing...

That's what's it's always about.

 

[byco42]

When someone invents an engine that can run on static electricity, I'll give Ayn Rand the consideration she is due.

I flirted briefly with Objectivism, until I recognized that it was dependent upon other people to behave like the cardboard characters of her books.

For someone who claimed that happiness is man's highest moral imperative, she was one miserable human being.

I guess because I would pounce on a hand grenade to save the lives of strangers, or that I would die for my faith makes me an altruist at heart, and contemptible in her eyes.

Paul Ryan is a idiat, as are most politicians. It's the ilk, after all.

 

[Thumb]

When someone invents an engine that can run on static electricity, I'll give Ayn Rand the consideration she is due.

I flirted briefly with Objectivism, until I recognized that it was dependent upon other people to behave like the cardboard characters of her books.

For someone who claimed that happiness is man's highest moral imperative, she was one miserable human being.

I guess because I would pounce on a hand grenade to save the lives of strangers, or that I would die for my faith makes me an altruist at heart, and contemptible in her eyes.

Paul Ryan is a idiat, as are most politicians. It's the ilk, after all.

A little off the topic, but explain how you would die for your faith?

I'm assuming you don't mean Jihad style. I'm also assuming you don't mean as a human sacrifice, I'm wondering what's really left?

 

[redandguilty]

A little off the topic, but explain how you would die for your faith?

I'm assuming you don't mean Jihad style. I'm also assuming you don't mean as a human sacrifice, I'm wondering what's really left?

He means there are 4 lights!

 

[byco42]

A little off the topic, but explain how you would die for your faith?

I'm assuming you don't mean Jihad style. I'm also assuming you don't mean as a human sacrifice, I'm wondering what's really left?

Christians and Catholics are being killed for being such in the world today. If someone pointed a gun at me and said to renounce my faith or be shot, I would not say a word.

 

[cheeno]

Christians and Catholics are being killed for being such in the world today. If someone pointed a gun at me and said to renounce my faith or be shot, I would not say a word.

I can relate. I have the same irrational faith and devotion in the Lions.

 

[byco42]

I can relate. I have the same irrational faith and devotion in the Lions.

They ate Christians, so I'd not renounce my faith at threat of being placed in a ring with them, either.

 

[redandguilty]

They ate Christians, so I'd not renounce my faith at threat of being placed in a ring with them, either.

nice

 

[Thumb]

Christians and Catholics are being killed for being such in the world today. If someone pointed a gun at me and said to renounce my faith or be shot, I would not say a word.

Okay I guess what you're saying is similar to Patrick Henry, but with your religion rather then your liberty.

Though, being persecuted and murdered because of religious beliefs is not exclusive to Catholics or Christians. [also not saying you implied this]

 

[byco42]

Okay I guess what you're saying is similar to Patrick Henry, but with your religion rather then your liberty.

Though, being persecuted and murdered because of religious beliefs is not exclusive to Catholics or Christians. [also not saying you implied this]

I said what I said. No more to say. Let's get back to piling onto Ayn Rand. EDIT: In a philosophical sense.

 

[tinselwolverine]

When someone invents an engine that can run on static electricity, I'll give Ayn Rand the consideration she is due.

I flirted briefly with Objectivism, until I recognized that it was dependent upon other people to behave like the cardboard characters of her books.

For someone who claimed that happiness is man's highest moral imperative, she was one miserable human being.

I guess because I would pounce on a hand grenade to save the lives of strangers, or that I would die for my faith makes me an altruist at heart, and contemptible in her eyes.

Paul Ryan is a idiat, as are most politicians. It's the ilk, after all.

Ya gotta wonder how well an army of rational objectivists would have functioned, in the heat of combat...

 

[lionsFTW]

Ya gotta wonder how well an army of rational objectivists would have functioned, in the heat of combat...

hah

 

[Michchamp]

He means there are 4 lights!