Last month, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) disavowed his one-time political muse, Ayn Rand, because of her “atheist philosophy.” Some of his constituents, however, aren’t buying it.
Ryan praised Rand’s ideas at length during a 2005 gathering in her honor and declared that “the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.” But in an April interview with National Review, Ryan took a far different tone, telling Bob Costa, “I reject her philosophy.”
At a town hall meeting on Friday, Ryan was pressed by a constituent to explain this about-face.
SOURCE: Paul Ryan Challenged By Town Hall Constituents Over Previous Praise Of Ayn Rand | ThinkProgress.