Ayn Rand tears apart the themes espoused by the current crop of grumpy crybaby psuedo-conservatives like Glen Beck and Bill O'Reilly.

Starting with their emphasis on religion, tradition, and some third principle which I didn't quite catch, it sounded at first like "depravity", but I think maybe the clip was cut off before she got around to discussing it..

"Intellectually, to rest one's case on faith, is to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies.". You tell'em Rand, you sweet old speed-freak objectivist! You were half-crazed and a terrible novelist, but at least you believed in a real reality.

Here's what the clip poster has to say:

Hopefully, we will see in our lifetimes a realignment of the GOP in favor of reason and individual rights and away from faith and tradition. Religion is a private matter.

As the Tea Party movement takes hold- we're seeing the ugly specter of religious intolerance gaining strength to rip apart the coalition of patriots we've assembled. Commentator Glenn Beck has openly declared that religion is the only basis on which the movement can proceed. At the same time, he depends on Objectivist commentators and secular pro-capitalists to make his economic and ideological case. You can't use rational men and women's ideas and simultaneously damn them for being rational.

For a statement of principle that ALL patriots can rally behind, visit www.PrincipledPatriots.us

I'm guessing he's a Ron Pauler. At least he has tagged the thing with what look like ronpaul tags.

You know what's funny. There's actually a lot of overlap in what the tea people and the hard progressives are saying.

Whatever happens, one thing is for sure. The democrats had one decent chance to do the right thing, and it looks like they have blown it completely. But oddly, they seem too stupid to be afraid of the progressives that worked so hard to get them back in power in a major way.