The greatest Ayn Rand quote of all time (on Reagan and Buckley)

you remind them that that psychotic megalomaniac was an atheist.

I would FB this quote if I were on FB.

We had a thread about this last week...

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/297023/ryan-shrugged-robert-costa

Paul Ryan is currently claiming Thomas Aquinas as his inspiration. They should just quit beating around the bush and admit their inspirations are Gordon Gekko, Ivan Boesky and Bernard Madoff.

It's not good for the Party of Law and Order to worship people who've spent time in prison for financial crimes.

I guess he saw trouble coming.

Maybe he fears ex-communication and the loss of his 'get out of hell free' card. Which is what he deserves.

He's the new Newt Gingrich.

Eddie didn't really have a choice in the way he is; Paul Ryan certainly does. But the family resemblance is striking.

"However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious
beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than
Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme
being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's
behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are
growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with
wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following
their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups
on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a
loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the
political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if
I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.'
Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to
claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even
more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every
religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my
vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today:
I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their
moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.' "



And he did fight the evangelicals every step of the way. Unfortunately for everyone, he lost, and now we have the republican party of today.

He called for lifting the ban on gays in the military in '93.
For anti-discrimination laws in the workplace.
He worked to uphold Roe v. Wade.

In 1989 he declared the republican party had been taken over by a "bunch of kooks".

Boy was he right on an awful lot of shit. And they threw him out on his ass, toot sweet.

- K&R

Didn't think you had it in you.

Then again---this thread sounds like a clever shout out to Ann...which most Wall Streeters worship.

Stopped clock effect, methinks.