• • • Why the Tea Party Need Mitt 
Thomas Frank, Truthout Ayn Rand Center  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Yaron Brook  |Syndicated  | Washington Post columnist George Will declared that what Romney did in his venture capitalist days was an “essential social function,” that his company was “indispensable for wealth creation.” (Just whose wealth was being created he left discreetly undefined.) Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Center and a familiar figure at Tea Party events, is no fan of Romney’s, but he had this to say about Romney’s career: “private equity serves an incredibly important productive function in our economy… Private equity is in my view a heroic activity.” “Heroic”: that’s exactly the word! In Romney we have finally found a quarter-billionaire to cry for.   Published: 2012-01-08