Ryan gave Atlas Shrugged for Christmas!

[unc70]

Rachel had video and discussion of Paul Ryan giving "Atlas Shrugged" as Christmas presents. Wrong in do many ways.

[SDjack]

1. Not as useful as a lump of coal. nt

[elleng]

2. To his staff/aides/interns!!!

[MichiganVote]

3. Oh for Pete's sake, interesting read at 17 but grow the hell up Ryan.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Playing Satan Claus

[DBoon]

5. He should have sold it too them

Christmas giving is altruistic and against the randian religion

[Ikonoklast]

6. Ryan was worth $500,000.00 at age 27 from a family trust, according to his congressional filings.

Just another rich punk kid that never worked a real job in his life, telling the rest of the world what a self-made man he is.

[99th_Monkey]

7. I heard the Ghost of Scrooge is seriously pissed at Ryan

that he is being so publicly "out-scrooged" by Ryan's actually GIVING this
book to his staff, interns, and to only Gawd knows how many other fools.

When interviewed by The Onion about his grievances, the Ghost of Mr. Scrooge
claimed he was being "mind-fucked" by the Rmoney campaign ... .after all, this
"horrifically symbolic giving gesture" by Ryan undercuts the core message of
Ayn Rand i.e. that there's no free lunch, we are all on our own, greedy to the
end, giving no quarter to those collectivists who lust for community and are
constantly GIVING things away for free.

These DC book-grabbing staffers have jobs, and should damn well pay the FULL
PRICE for each and every book ... cuz if Ryan won't do this, he's clearly not
selfish enough to be a good Republican VP.

"How can any true American --as Ryan claims to be-- simply GIVE something
away? Especially something of such immense value as Atlas Shrugged."

[Tanuki]

8. Because he could think of no better way to celebrate the birth of his Lord Jesus Christ

than to propagate the ideology of cynical atheist who made no secret of her utter contempt for his faith. Somehow this will be OK with the crowd who get offended if you wish them "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."

[pepperbear]

9. Screw that "peace on earth and goodwill toward men" crap...

...instead, read this book about a world where abject selfishness is disguised as "individualism" and corporatism is disguised as "freedom."

[bleever]

10. Well, Jesus did say, "Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers,

that you do unto moochers who shouldn't eat or reproduce." (paraphrase)