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To: elhombrelibre
He’s his own weird brand of dumbed down Ayn Randianism.

Lets be fair here, Ayn Rand absolutely hated libertarians. She called the Libertarians of her day (which were Paul's mentors) 'Hippies of the Right who trade capitalism for anarchy and reason for whims' (paraphrased).

11 posted on 01/02/2012 10:59:24 AM PST by mnehring
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To: mnehring
She called the Libertarians of her day (which were Paul's mentors) 'Hippies of the Right

So that's why the couple Occupy events I attended featured Infowars and R[backwards]evol[/backwards]ution TShirts. Some aged hippies too.

17 posted on 01/02/2012 11:17:49 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do !)
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To: mnehring

Yes, that’s true. But Run Paul does see her as his inspiration; he even named his son after her.


22 posted on 01/02/2012 12:44:11 PM PST by elhombrelibre ("I'd rather be ruled by the Tea Party than the Democratic Party." Norman Podhoretz)
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