From Eric Dondero:

John Hempstead of LaCrosse, Wisconsin pens this featured letter to the editor, June 28. Hempstead is upset that his beloved reasonable "Eisenhower" based GOP has been taken over by rabid anti-government Libertarians.

From the LaCrosse Tribune, "Rand's policies proven to fail," June 28:

What happened to the Republican Party? Now its mission is mainly to privatize public services and cut taxes. Public education seems to be the first casualty in Wisconsin, along with deregulating environmental and consumer protections.

How has the Republican Party evolved this mindset? Libertarian principles based on Ayn Rand’s flawed philosophy are responsible. Rand’s principles are based on three unsupportable standards:

All individuals are autonomous; productive people have no need for social cooperation.

No individual should be forced to pay taxes to benefit others. Only taxes for national defense and police work are justified.

Free markets run best with no regulation. Therefore regulations to prevent another financial disaster such as the one in 2008 are unjustified. Businesses must be protected against government, but the public deserves no protection against businesses.

A society based on Rand’s fiction cannot work. A result is political ads based on fiction funded by wealthy industrialists. It’s time to take back the Republican Party from Libertarians and elect responsible members of both parties who will cooperate.

Editor's comment - Hey John, take out the libertarian wing of the GOP, and the Republican Party cannot win. Recent polls have shown that a quarter to 1/3rd of the Republican Party leans libertarian. Do you really want to run us off to the Libertarian Party?