Ayn Rand-Hating Christian Is Unsuccessful Getting a Bible Into Paul Ryan's Hands

The easily-winded young fella is from an outfit called Faithful America, whose purposes from what I can quickly gather is to to attack Republicans and support Barack Obama using the language of Christ (sample spirituality: "Challenge Boehner's Budget Priorities"). Quite like the American Values Network, which has been mixing its Rand-baiting with stimulus-supporting for some time now. Amen, and pass the Pelosi!

Unlike Andrew Sullivan, who seems to think the above video highlights an intriguing split within the Republican coalition, I think the main takeaway here is that Democrats have once again succeeded in creating mirror institutions of rightist political institutions they've long despised. The right, after all, has been hating on Rand's atheism from the git-go. What's new is that the anti-Jesusland party is now attacking people for their lack of faith (or correct interpretation of the Gospels), period. It's really just a matter of time before the left starts attacking Ayn Rand for being pro-choice and anti-Vietnam War, too.

Reason's Rand page here. Re-read Peter Suderman's great profile "Paul Ryan: Radical or Sellout?"