So much for going John Jane Galt.

Now at least six Tea Party-backed statewide GOP candidates—Nevada’s Sharron Angle, Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell, Colorado’s Ken Buck, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, Alaska’s Joe Miller, and New York’s Carl Paladino—back this absolutist stand.

Here we have a movement that claims to accept the notion of Objectivism and the works of Ayn Rand. They claim to be about liberty (read Libertarianism) and individualism yet in reality they are nothing more than a more extremist version of the religious right in America. Atlas Shrugs for whom?

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. — Ayn Rand,