Paul Ryan likes Ayn Rand… I fail to see why this is a bad thing. Heck, I would consider it a redeeming quality.
Ayn Rand was an atheist.
Ditto
There are few people in the world that can make Nancy Bimbosi appear intelligent.
Cher is one of those.
Paul likes Thomas Aquinas more so than he likes Ayn Rand:
“I, like millions of young people in America, read Rand’s novels when I was young. I enjoyed them,” Ryan says. “They spurred an interest in economics, in the Chicago School and Milton Friedman,” a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. “But it’s a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.”
“I reject her philosophy,” Ryan says firmly. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person’s view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas,” who believed that man needs divine help in the pursuit of knowledge. “Don’t give me Ayn Rand,” he says.
Ryan said he admired her ideas about limited government, but that his overall philosophy is more in line with that of Thomas Aquinas.