are the most turned off by<\/a>.\u00a0For some odd reason, I\u2019m not at all surprised that he would choose to defend Romney\u2019s oft criticized business record.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s actually quite consistent with Paul\u2019s politics, his take on Ayn Rand, and his libertarian ideals.\u00a0\u00a0The irony is, how\u00a0many Catholics who have trashed the Ayn Rand approach to our economic system, or\u00a0have spent the last couple years attacking Capitalism and the Free Market for its rather Darwinian tendencies, see Paul as a knight in shinning armor.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, they admit he\u2019s not perfect, but my how they trash anyone other than Paul for holding in moderation many of the views that Paul holds in the extreme. \u00a0Politics does create strange bedfellows, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not surprisingly, he defends the one area of Romney\u2019s record and positions that most Americans are the most turned off by.\u00a0For some odd reason, I\u2019m not at all surprised that he would choose to defend Romney\u2019s oft criticized business record.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s actually quite consistent with Paul\u2019s politics, his take on Ayn Rand, and his libertarian ideals.\u00a0\u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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