Ken Cuccinelli joins Paul Ryan in embracing a total philosophical contradiction:
What book would he write about if he had to write a college-admissions essay? … Ultimately, he picks Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
Rand, Cuccinelli says, “captured an awful lot of the battle for our government that’s going on right now” and saw “the natural course of bigger government, [the problem of] relying on it for everything, and the control it takes over everything as it goes down that path.” … Still, he doesn’t consider himself a Randian, because of Rand’s “Objectivist philosophy” and “very selfishly focused” mindset. He notes “the foundation that she appears to be building upon” and finds it to be not “consistent with the Founders’ vision for the country.”
If I were grading a term paper, that would be a D. The profile is a fawning embarrassment – like assigning K-lo to profile Maggie Gallagher.
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