From the Paul Ryan Institute of Political Science--they've created a MONSTER! ...Which could make the GOP convention an exciting place this year (see Ron Paul zombies, above). For more satire this election season, like/share/subscribe: http://www.facebook.com/TheSecondCityNetwork http://www.facebook.com/ThePartisansComedy Directed by Andy Cobb http://www.twitter.com/andycobb Written by Andy Cobb and Maribeth Monroe Produced by Michael Damasks Director of Photography: Carlos Oropeza PA/2nd Camera: Nathan Ossman AD Matt Chapman Ayn Rand: Maribeth Monroe http://twitter.com/#!/maribethmonroe Narrator: Andy Cobb Scientists: Ron West Steve Kaminski Rock Ellis Student: Gina Lohman Rachel Maddow: Patricia Villetto Jesus: Craig Phillip Conant Ron Paul Zombies: Angie Light, John Mahr, Gabe Fiscale, Tripp Jones, Gina Lohman, Terese Aiello, Russ Burd, Alexis Notabartolo, Chris Rubino, Mary Venus, Nick Dossman. Ron Paul has announced he is ending his campaign...kinda. He's going to stop spending money on primaries, which is a little like Kim Kardashian announcing she's going to stop spending all that time thinking about organic chemistry. It's a switch, but only kinda sorta. And we KNOW, Ron Paul people. It's all because Ron Paul is not just a candidate, he's an idea. Or a movement. Or whatever, he's certainly never going to be President of the United States. But he will persist. The animating force behind Ron Paul's endurance has never been campaign spending, it is indeed an idea. A really shitty idea, promoted by Right Wingers as a free market utopia without the horrible burdens of stable currency or child labor laws. The originator of this idea is occasionally enthusiastically embraced by conservatives as providing a consistent philosophical basis for shitty policy. Her name is Ayn Rand, and people like Paul Ryan just love love love her...until they remember that she hates their religion and thinks it's silly. Then the walk back begins. But having introduced Rand in the upper hierarchy of the Republican Party, she may not be so easy to dismiss. The ghost--or zombie, if you will--of Ayn Rand lingers in the Republican party, a reminder that it is a party with deep divisions--and policy based on ideas that don't just contradict each other, but are downright willing to fight it out in a back alley at night. Like us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/TheSecondCityNetwork Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/secondcitynetwk http://www.secondcitynetwork.com/ The Second City New Media The Second City Network is quickly becoming one of the hottest channels on YouTube. Our work has been featured on Tosh.0 on Comedy Central, G4's Attack of the Show, Inside Edition, NPR, MSNBC, CNN and more! Many of today's biggest names got their start at The Second City main stages -including Tina Fey of 30 Rock, Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report, and Steve Carell of The Office. Do you want to be a better comedy writer, actor, and improviser? Then sign up to take a class at one of our training centers! Chicago: http://www.secondcity.com/Training/Chicago Hollywood: http://www.secondcity.com/Training/Hollywood Toronto: http://www.secondcity.com/Training/toronto Study comedy for college credit at Second City: http://www.comedystudies.com/ Watch videos created by our current students: http://www.youtube.com/7dayshorts

• published: 14 May 2012
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