"Wait, My Hero is an Atheist?"

I burst out laughing when I saw an article showing that Rep. Paul Ryan is now rejecting, rejecting, the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand.  I wrote a post months ago that included video clips of an interview that Rand gave to the late Mike Wallace, and in that interview, Rand was quite explicit in explaining the tenets of Objectivism.  Classically, Ryan likely understood exactly what he wanted to understand about Rand's philosophy, with regard to the fallacy of the government assisting the least among us, while ignoring those aspects of Objectivism that he didn't like, or didn't understand.