Republican Means Never Having to Address Your Cognitive Dissonance

I wasn thinking today about a Facebook blurb posted by a friend:

... and what a great example it is of what should lead to cognitive dissonance in the GOP.  Paul Ryan talks about how his worldview was shaped by Rand, even as he is seen as a practicing Catholic.  Now many people take some things and leave others from a comprehensive philosophy like the Objectivism of Ayn Rand.  But Rand wasn't just "not religious"- she was Anti-Religion, with a vengeance.  She saw Christian virtues as fundamentally immoral, as they encouraged things like charity, which just encourages the "takers" and discourages work.  You really can't believe in Rand and also believe in the teachings of Jesus.

Simliarly, I keep hearing Republicans talk now about the evils of the enormous deficit, how it's going to stick our children with a huge, unpayable bill that will destroy our economy and lead us to ruin.  And then in the next breath they'talk about how our historically low tax rates are still too high, and we have to lower taxes to spur growth.  I guess it should be obvious that these goals (deficit reduction and tax cuts) are in contradiction to each other- it's pretty tough to balance any budget while cutting your revenue at the same time.  But this is never acknowledged by anyone in the party.

I've got to run now, but I may keep trying to think of other obvious contradictions- these two are pretty bald, though.