That’s when conservatives had principles and intellect and didn’t sacrifice either for popular personalities like Palin, Hannity, Trump, and the like.
Yes, Ayn Rand was a great writer, but personally, she was no hero. As is the case with almost everyone the right embraces these days, she was a personality, not principled.
Unless you pick principles over personalities, you will always lose. . . even if you “win” the thrones of power. False idols abound and have many followers. Sadly, tried and true principles do not. Those who abandon them to win elections or feel good about embracing a selfish, ambitious quitter governor and empty-headed feminist from Alaska, have nothing. They are losers. Desperate losers. And very stupid ones, too.
And Sarah Palin and Donald Trump and Sean Hannity and the like are laughing at them . . . all the way to the bank, just like “Atlas Shrugged’s” James Taggart (and the ghost of Ayn Rand from her grave).
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/36412/atlas-shrugged-movie-a-reality-check-on-ayn-rand/