Ayn Rand has the gavel whomever hands it's in.

Fromm her "The Virtue of Selfishness":

"There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government's unlimited arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

"There can be no compromise on basic principles or on fundamental issues. What would you regard as a 'compromise' between life and death? Or between truth and falsehood? Or between reason and irrationality.?

"Today, however, when people speak of 'compromise,' what they mean is not a legitimate mutual concession or a trade, but precisely the betrayal of one's principles--the unilateral surrender to any groundless irrational claim. The root of that doctrine is ethical subjectivism, which holds that a desire or whim is an irreducible moral primary, that every man is entitled to any desire he might feel like asserting, that all desires have equal moral validity, and that the only way men can get along together is by giving in to anything and 'compromising' with anyone. It is not hard to see who would profit and who would lose by such a doctrine.

"The immorality of this doctrine--and the reason the term 'compromise' implies, in today's general usage, an act of moral treason--lies in the fact that it requires men to accept ethical subjectivism as the basic principle, superseding all principles in human relationships and to sacrifice anything as a concession to one another's whims."

One can see the virtual straitjacket the teaparty is obliged to operate within. Their intransigence in Congress will carry over into this convention. Or they blaspheme their goddess.

"Irrational" to Ayn Rand is any idea opposed to hers.