The Rude Pundit - Three Follow-Up Questions Designed to Piss Off Rand Paul

[meegbear]

As we've learned, it's very easy to make Sen. Rand Paul get as pissy as an aggravated 8th grade girl when he's questioned even slightly. So here's some quick follow-ups sure to push him over the edge. They can come after anything from queries about Iran to "Were you really named after Ayn Rand?"

1. "Really?"

2. "Dude, really?"

3. "Are you shittin' me?"

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/04/three-follow-up-questions-designed-to.html

[Scurrilous]

1. Heh!

K & R

[samsingh]

2. kick

[cyberswede]

3. *snicker*

FRP

[2naSalit]

4. K&R

[bvf]

5. The walk-offs are planned.

Better just to physically (I mean that literally) smack him in the face before he has a chance to get out of his chair.

[rurallib]

8. Agreed - retreating is a part of his schtik

[Hekate]

6. That ought to do it all right. Next time he speaks to a crowd, how about 3 people take this on?

It would be my pleasure.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. If I were named for Ayn Rand, I'd take it out on my dad.

Ayn Rand was a hack novelist and quack philosopher.

As a philosopher, she claimed to be a follower of Aristotle. The fact is that I have never read anything so full of sophistry, ever, as John Galt's speech in Altas Shrugged. Any sophist can take Aristotle's logical postulates, define terms to fit what she wants to prove, apply those postulates to those terms and "prove" anything. Maybe I just have a problem with the idea that man is such a rugged individualist that he cannot possibly be a social animal. That's only contradicted by everyone I've ever known, and every significant relationship I've every experienced.

As a novelist, she claimed to be an admirer of Dostoyevsky. Take out the sophist philosophy and Atlas Shrugged is a trash novel a la Jackie Susann: it's a novel people who aren't very interesting to begin with, who violate social norms by having a illicit love affair and go forth to search for ways to rationalize it.

[douggg]

9. Ayn Rand despised Christianity

That was an integral part of her philosophy.

Is little Randy trying to cherry pick Ayn's philosophy while claiming to believe in it?

YES!