For all of you who can’t get enough of a 3rd rate writer’s offering of selfishness and greed, your prayers have been answered.

Penguin Group will launch a new iPad app of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, “Atlas Shrugged,” combining the unabridged text and rarely seen photos from Ayn Rand’s archives.

The app [...] will include videos and audio lectures given by Rand, original manuscript notes, an illustrated timeline of Rand’s life, and other features.

Excited?  I certainly hope so but if you aren’t, I’m sure Tea Partiers, Libertarians and many conservatives are.  They have made Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged a metaphor for an America suffering through an economic recession.  Where is John Galt when you need him?

I would urge teabaggers and friends, though, to hold back from spending their hard earned $14.99 for the iPad app until they’ve delved a little deeper into this Ayn Rand person they so adore.

And to help them along on their journey of discovery, here are a few selected Ayn Rand quotes these good people might find interesting.

On Conservatives:

“Today’s ‘conservatives’ are futile, impotent and, culturally, dead,” she said. “They have nothing to offer and can achieve nothing. They can only help to destroy intellectual standards, to disintegrate thought, to discredit capitalism, and to accelerate this country’s uncontested collapse into despair and dictatorship.”

On Ronald Reagan:

“I urge you, as emphatically as I can, not to support the candidacy of Ronald Reagan. I urge you not to work for or advocate his nomination, and not to vote for him. My reasons are as follows: Mr. Reagan is not a champion of capitalism, but a conservative in the worst sense of that word – i.e., an advocate of a mixed economy with government controls slanted in favor of business rather than labor (which, philosophically, is as untenable a position as one could choose – see Fred Kinnan in Atlas Shrugged, pp. 541-2). This description applies in various degrees to most Republican politicians, but most of them preserve some respect for the rights of the individual. Mr. Reagan does not: he opposes the right to abortion.”

On Homosexuality:

“All laws against homosexual acts should be repealed,” she said in 1968. “I do not approve of such practices or regard them as necessarily moral, but it is improper for the law to interfere with a relationship between consenting adults.”

So what would Ayn Rand think of today’s Tea Party folk?  Well, based on the avowed atheist’s own words on issues so dear to teabaggers, I’m thinking disdain would best describe her thoughts.

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