Paul Ryan, the candidate for vice president on the Republican ticket, is lending new meaning to the word “hypocrisy.”
Six months ago, I offered the following in response to a certain effort by Ryan to rewrite his past:
When I reported HERE last week that Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican budget guru, had suddenly disowned the crackpot philosopher Ayn Rand, I didn’t really do the matter justice.
I failed to fully capture the craven dishonesty of Ryan’s belated rejection of Rand’s gospel of selfishness.
I failed to emphasize, for example, the blatant falseness of Ryan’s claim that it was only an ...
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