No go. Just some corporate liberals trying to figure out what corporate conservatives have for ideology. Ayn Rand, as an ideology, failed with Alan Greenspan.
But, maybe I am wrong. I saw Eric Canter on this morning as the rep of the Republican party. Asked a question on imposing financial laws on Wall Street gamers he fumbled and changed the question. Looked damn serious about it too. The wall street money is just as green for the Repubs as the Dems. The Repubs could have made gains by pointing out the Dems reforms were near bogus, but then, they would have to offer something better, something that would shatter their anti-regulation cult ideology that offers them solace from have to face the fact they are only tools of their contributors.
For sure, Canter lost votes. He is the face of the Repub party? Looked like just another cog in the wheel.
Absolute baloney. In the sixties, Greenspan was, indeed, a follower of Rand; even to the point that he wrote what is still considered a classic defense of the gold standard. But, by the nineties, in his capacity as Chairman of the Fed, he'd already abandoned his Objectivist views.
His career from then on was marked by printing money to keep the large banks afloat and thereby manipulate the economy. To associate that with Rand is ignorant and facile.