Reg Henry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Romney-Ryan seem right as extreme team

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http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/reg-henry/romney-ryan-seem-right-as-extreme-team-649049/

None of this is really Mr. Ryan's fault. In his formative years, he had the misfortune of falling under the spell of the writer Ayn Rand and her antidote for altruism. Over the years, many young people have been infected by the notion of self-interest as the basis for moral action, despite what they learned in Sunday School.

Indeed, if you rub two grown men (or women) of extremist right-wing tendencies together, at least one well-thumbed copy of Ayn Rand is bound to fall out -- but only after they accuse you of trying to encourage gay marriage with your unorthodox rubbing.

As you can see, I think Mitt Romney has boldly answered his critics who were suspicious that he might be secretly reasonable, compassionate and sane despite all his tough talk during the campaign.

Surely now he has proved such doubts wrong. It takes some guts to go to Capitol Hill and pick one of its leaders to help lead America at a time when the gridlocked Congress is about as popular as a beef steak at the PETA annual dinner.

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