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To: ThomasJefferson
Ayn Rand

Even she despised libertarians, describing them as "hippies, who subordinate reason to whims."

405 posted on 09/10/2002 12:54:17 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe
Even she [Ayn Rand] despised libertarians, describing them as "hippies, who subordinate reason to whims."

I believe Rand's exact term was that libertarians were "a random collection of hippies of the right."

Well, so what. While I admire much of Rand's writings, the LP platform makes more sense than the lunatic fulminations coming out of today's Ayn Rand Institute.

414 posted on 09/10/2002 8:05:42 AM PDT by Commie Basher
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