Talk:Roger MacBride

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I removed the following, which had been put in at the end of the first body paragraph, after "...went on to be the Libertarian Party candidate for President in 1976,":

Objectivist philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand denounced him for plagiarizing her ideas and mixing them with their exact opposite.

It's not that Rand's denunciation of McBride shouldn't necessarily be included in the article. Rather it seemed tacked on in this paragraph, without any kind of contextual support. Did Rand denounce McBride during the '76 presidential campaign, or in response to his candidacy? If not, what were the circumstances? Also, no specification is given as to what McBride's expressed ideas were, and how they amounted to plagiarized/inverted Rand-ism. As it stands, the sentence is just a categorical broadside with no regard to NPOV. --JustDerek 23:48, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Is this chap's name MacBride or McBride? The Internet seems reasonably split on the matter. I've just added a redirect from McBride, but... Shimgray | talk | 01:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

What is an "adopted grandson"? Since you can't adopt a grandchild, does this mean he was he the adopted son of a son or daughter of Rose Wilder Lane? Or did she "adopt" him in a non-legal sense as a grandchild? Schizombie 04:05, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

  • I assume the former, and "adoptive grandson" would possibly be a better way of phrasing it. This [1] confirms he was her heir; another couple of books refer to her "adopted grandson and heir". Shimgray | talk | 14:01, 25 February 2006 (UTC)


He cast his electoral vote in Virginia in 1972, but the article says he was elected to the Vermont state legislature. Is this accurate, or an error?

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