[Laissez-faire capitalist]

So should the GOP align themselves more with her or stick with Adam Smith, a believer who was the founder of modern capitalism as stated in his seminal works, “The Wealth of Nations” and “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”?

Why do Rush Limbaugh and Paul Ryan utter hardly a peep about Adam Smith, but act likes Ayn Rand’s works are the best thing since sliced bread?

[DiogenesLamp]

So should the GOP align themselves more with her or stick with Adam Smith, a believer who was the founder of modern capitalism as stated in his seminal works, “The Wealth of Nations” and “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”

Adam Smith is good for the economic side of the argument, but Edmund Burke needs to be leading the social side of the argument. You may or may not know that Adam Smith and Edmund Burke were not just contemporaries, but they were close personal friends who discussed Philosophy together, and their ideas are synergistic and meant to be taken together.

Why do Rush Limbaugh and Paul Ryan utter hardly a peep about Adam Smith, but act likes Ayn Rand’s works are the best thing since sliced bread?

Argumentum ad Populum. Argumentum ad Verecundiam.