freedomworks that you scam people out of their money, thinking it s for the campaign and it really just gets spent on something that you re going to profit from? should that be okay? because they re sort of randian economic anarchists, and if you can scam people out of their money, you deserve their money than they do? it is consistent with randian principles, i think. take a look back at ralph reed and pat robertson. it was all about generating this list, figuring out ways to sell them to others, using them to raise money on the 700 club, trying to sell products, some of seemingly dubious value, and it s so i guess at least they re not hypocrites. right. yes, in a way. but i feel like it was i feel like it made sense in an instrumental way before, essentially before the internet. i realize i sound like an old-timer at this point. but in a preinternet, presocial media world, having people s
should it be okay at freedomworks that you scam people out of their money, thinking it s for the campaign and it really just gets spent on something that you re going to profit from? should that be okay? because they re sort of randian economic anarchists, and if you can scam people out of their money, you deserve their money than they do? it is consistent with randian principles, i think. take a look back at ralph reed and pat robertson. it was all about generating this list, figuring out ways to sell them to others, using them to raise money on the 700 club, trying to sell products, some of seemingly dubious value, and it s so i guess at least they re not hypocrites. right. yes, in a way. but i feel like it was i feel like it made sense in an instrumental way before, essentially before the internet. i realize i sound like an old-timer at this point. but in a preinternet, presocial media world, having people s
thinking it s for the campaign and it really just gets spent on something that you re going to profit from? should that be okay? because they re sort of randian economic anarchists, and if you can scam people out of their money, you deserve their money than they do? it is consistent with randian principles, i think. take a look back at ralph reed and pat robertson. it was all about generating this list, figuring out ways to sell them to others, using them to raise money on the 700 club, trying to sell products, some of seemingly dubious value, and it s so i guess at least they re not hypocrites. right. yes, in a way. but i feel like it was i feel like it made sense in an instrumental way before, essentially before the internet. i realize i sound like an old-timer at this point. but in a preinternet, presocial media world, having people s addresses, having people s base contact information was sort of enough to give you the
inspiration is a bit chilling. not so much, mr. reagan. i respectfully disagree. when ryan talks about rand, he also talks about rand in the same context he talks about milton friedman. free market leaders. to say anything beyond that, all you look at the political career. this guy is not just a new face on the national scene. he was elected to the house in 1998. when you look at his record and you till me it s a randian record, i would disagree. it s a conservative republican record. no one is crazy enough to have a randian record. yes, you re right about that. ron paul perhaps. ron, i have 15 seconds left. was your dad an ayn rand person? no, he was not. no, he was not. i never saw him with atlas shr or the fountain head in his hand. thank you both. thank you. when we return, let me finish with the legal battle over that tough voter i.d. law
there s a story that mitt romney has tried to tell, there s a story about crony capitalism and subsidies, right? but that story is deeply complicated by the fact that obviously the republican party took that vote against getting rid of the subsidies for the oil companies. so it s hard to kind of hew to this strict beautiful pristine kind of randian line of government subsidy of the energy industry. no, absolutely. and because he s only specified a tiny amount of what he would be willing to do, most middle-class voters and most observers have no idea how they would benefit, if benefit at all from romney s tax reform. so as a result, people want to know what kinds of actual tangible things you could do. and i kind of disagree with josh here. because i think that mitt romney would have a line of attack against the president, who made some big promises about what investment in alternative energy would do. how many jobs that would create. the president really and the administration hasn t