When Cruelty Is Cute 
Maureen Dowd, New York Times Altruism  |Atlas Shrugged  |Individualism  |Personal life  | And Rand would not have approved of [Paul] Ryan’s votes in the House backing W.’s profligate spending on unwinnable wars, a bank bailout and a Medicare expansion. She would no doubt have been thrilled, however, that under the Ryan budget plan, the megarich Romney would go from paying shamefully as little as possible in taxes to virtually no taxes. [....] His long infatuation with her makes him seem even younger than he looks with his cowlick because Randism is a state of arrested adolescence, making its disciples feel like heroic teenagers atop a lofty mountain peak.   Published: 2012-08-14