Leader of the Pack

I just finished watching a bit of the movie Willard on TV. The the actor in this film who portrays the principal character looks a bit like Rep. Paul Ryan, Gov. Willard Mitt Romney's prospective VP choice. See my previous blog-post. After watching Willard (not Mitt) and his trained rats on TV, I turned to Robert Paul Wolff's blog The Philosopher's Stone http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/ and his post entitled "Randy Ryan". I include below the last paragraph of Prof. Wolff's 14 August piece:

Paul Ryan is a Roman Catholic whose family made a good deal of money over half a century off of government contracts for building the interstate highway system.  To this day it feeds at the federal trough, getting defense-related dollars.  In every way conceivable, Ryan the man is totally in violation of the Objectivist ethical theories pushed by Rand.  It has become a central tenet of the consensus gentium in recent decades that American conservatives are deep thinkers who, in their think tanks, come up with new ideas to replace the tired habits of liberal pols.  Paul Ryan, we are told, is the intellectual leader of the Republican Party.  I think we should pause just a bit before embracing our very own Smerdyakov.

Prof. Wolff's piece is very instructive about Ayn Rand and Paul Ryan.