Paul Ryan is a flip-flopper, too!
In 2009:
In 2012:
"You know youve arrived in politics when you have an urban legend about you, and this one is mine, chuckles Representative Paul Ryan, the Budget Committee chairman, as we discuss his purported obsession with author and philosopher Ayn Rand.
Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist, recently called Ryan an Ayn Rand devotee who wants to slash benefits for the poor. New York magazine once alleged that Ryan requires staffers to read Atlas Shrugged, Rands gospel of capitalism. President Obama has blasted the Ryan budget as Republican social Darwinism.
These Rand-related slams, Ryan says, are inaccurate and part of an effort on the left to paint him as a cold-hearted Objectivist. Ryans actual philosophy, as reported by my colleague, Brian Bolduc, couldnt be further from the caricature. As a practicing Roman Catholic, Ryan says, his faith and moral values shape his politics as much as his belief in freedom and capitalism does.
I reject her philosophy, Ryan says firmly. Its an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a persons view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas, who believed that man needs divine help in the pursuit of knowledge. Dont give me Ayn Rand, he says.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/297023/ryan-shrugged-robert-costa?pg=1