Teenager Who Once Wowed Conservatives with CPAC Speech Admits: No Longer Conservative
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Remember Jonathan Krohn?
He’s the 13-year-old kid who wowed conservatives at the 2009 Conservative Policial Action Conference in 2009. He wrote a book called “Defining Conservatism” and his speech went viral:
Well, now 17, Krohn is admitting to Politico he’s become a liberal and dismissing his former views as childish parroting of views he grew up hearing.
“He likes gay marriage and Obamacare. He’s going to New York University in the fall,” The Atlantic reports. “He name drops German philosophers.”
And sure enough.
“I think it was naive,” Krohn told Politico of the speech. “It’s a 13-year-old kid saying stuff that he had heard for a long time.… I live in Georgia. We’re inundated with conservative talk in Georgia.… The speech was something that a 13-year-old does. You haven’t formed all your opinions. You’re really defeating yourself if you think you have all of your ideas in your head when you were 12 or 13. It’s impossible. You haven’t done enough.”
Krohn tries to say in the interview that he’s not really liberal, but rather just not conservative. But even Politico isn’t buying it:
Krohn won’t go so far as to say he’s liberal, in part because his move away from conservatism was a move away from ideological boxes in general.
“I want to be Jonathan Krohn,” he said, “and I’m tired of being an ideology, and it’s not fun and it gets boring and it’s not who we are as individuals.”
But a quick rundown of his current political stances suggests a serious pendulum swing away from the right.
Gay marriage? In favor. Obamacare? “It’s a good idea.” Who would he vote for (if he could) in November? “Probably Barack Obama.” His favorite TV shows? “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” His favorite magazine? The New Yorker. And, perhaps telling of all, Krohn is enrolling this fall at a college not exactly known for its conservatism: New York University.
He explains the shift:
“One of the first things that changed was that I stopped being a social conservative,” said Krohn. “It just didn’t seem right to me anymore. From there, it branched into other issues, everything from health care to economic issues.… I think I’ve changed a lot, and it’s not because I’ve become a liberal from being a conservative — it’s just that I thought about it more. The issues are so complex, you can’t just go with some ideological mantra for each substantive issue.”
Krohn is bucking the received wisdom that people become more conservative as they get older, a shift he attributes partly to philosophy.
“I started reflecting on a lot of what I wrote, just thinking about what I had said and what I had done and started reading a lot of other stuff, and not just political stuff,” Krohn said. “I started getting into philosophy — Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kant and lots of other German philosophers. And then into present philosophers — Saul Kripke, David Chalmers. It was really reading philosophy that didn’t have anything to do with politics that gave me a breather and made me realize that a lot of what I said was ideological blather that really wasn’t meaningful. It wasn’t me thinking. It was just me saying things I had heard so long from people I thought were interesting and just came to believe for some reason, without really understanding it. I understood it enough to talk about it but not really enough to have a conversation about it.”
He goes on to attribute his conversion to “maturity overall”: “People don’t realize I was 14 when I wrote that book. I’m 17 now. In terms of my life, three years is a long time in a 17-year-old’s life.”
“Come on, I was thirteen,” he concluded. “I was thirteen.”
You can read the full interview here.
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carpee
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:58pmanother one bites the dust
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:04pmFirst conservative to liberal conversino I’ve seen… He’s 17. Come on. Let him get a job and write that first check to the IRS while 50% of the population is on the dole, and those silly liberal ideas will burst like balloons on a cactus.
Report Post »DJR
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:09pmLet’s hope he grow out of it.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:14pmGod gave us as parents a promise that if we raise our child with Godly virtues they will come back right now he is watching trash tv and following the teaching of dead atheist’s . But is he still getting paid on his book? Or can everyone that bought it take it back and is it still in print.
Report Post »DisgruntledInClinton
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:16pmThe indoctrination through our educational system “works” again. Love to hear what he says after moving back into his parents’ basement in four years.
Report Post »inthealpine
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:19pmThis is the normal flow. You mimic your elders views when you are young, you mimic your teachers views when you ‘become of age’, you mimic your professors when you ‘know it all’, then you become a conservative when you pay taxes.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:21pmLet me guess, he stopped going to a private school and changed to a public school. Oh man, those German philosophers, now those are names to drop, Hail Hitler, cough, Obama.
Report Post »oldduffer
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:22pmBet his teachers worked night and day for that conversion aka indoctrination.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:23pmOf course he’s not. Who could withstand the complete scrub and brainwashing that takes place in high school. That is why liberal prog commie teachers are always pushing sex education on the kids. It is to make it easier to equate progressivism with fun (sex) and conservatism with no-fun. That is why they always push the sex ed crap. To get them over to thier side. This punk is no different.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:24pmJonathan who? Guess that means his life as a liberal is off to a good start…
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:29pmNo matter what, sooner or later he will get back to his roots, all teenagers become rebellious.I used to think i was a liberal at that age, then I grew up and realized I wasn’t.
Report Post »Wojciech W.
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:32pmwho is this dumb-ass? hahaha stupid kid thinks he has everything figured out? i was a stupid kid once too, for like a min. The Marine Corps drilled that **** right out of my head. I learned right quick, God, family, friends, country is all that matters. In that order. Anything leading toward oppression … Center Mass! He was always a liberal, he was doing what he was told to when he was a kid. He scammed stupid ppl by writing a book(his parents idea). He got some money the capital way now he doesn’t need you fools anymore … hahaha till the money runs out and his lib friends wont give him any … then he‘ll say I’m a conservative … how many idiots will he get with that? Wise up America! You elected a Socialist black guy who you knew NOTHING about, THIS kid shocks you?! We are doomed, well not we just you. I’m set. Got the training to protect my family. Good luck putting your trust in ppl you know nothing about. We will never win the WAR that way.
Report Post »Wojciech W.
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:33pmHe even has a smug look on his face hahaha, should have been a target indicator right there.
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:35pmJust wait until he has to pay his fair (?) share of the Obama debt in the future years. He’ll be sorry.
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:38pmDont you love that brainwash education?!?!?!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:39pm@Texas Chris Great sound bite. Now some facts. People who work and don’t pay any income taxes is probably related to the low wages they are earning. And thus as a percentage of their income they are paying a much higher percentage in payroll, excise taxes, sales taxes, license and other government fees (really taxes). So while your sound bite keeps you comfortable in your ideology. Once and a while take a break and do the math. You should actually be concerned about the people who are working and can’t make a living wage. That is the real issue to focus on. Oh and why Exxon deserves a $5 billion tax credit. Follow the real money.
Report Post »ItsTupacImBack
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:40pmInsert Clever Comment:
He was never a conservative.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:45pmWell gee, anyone who can name-drop German philosophers must know what life’s all about…
Just sounds like a rebellious adolescent to me. He missed his adolescence back when everyone was gooing over him. Kinda cute, actually, so confident in his opinion, yet so inexperienced.
Report Post »SunTzuYou
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:51pmPretty much in line with communist screenwriters in the 1930s, taking on the persona of a deep thinker, troubled individual, with a big heart, sort of like James Dean, was a great way to get chicks. This is probably more the root of his “maturing.” I don’t think my theory holds with Roberts, he is supposed to be an adult by now. Go figure?
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:55pmTexas Chris:
Not the first one I’ve seen. After all, he’s Seventeen; – Seventeen! [emphasis His!]
I have 4 children, now ages 25-33. All of them turned to some parts of Liberalism somewhere between the ages of 17-20. Normal, spread your wings rebellion! And all of them but one have come most of the way back. The three that have come back either have college loans or mortgages, or both. They have grown up.The one who hasn’t come back thinks she has, but has been “spoiled” by government hand-outs; My husband and I are supporting her two kids, (to protect them, and we WON’T take her in)! While her life experiences could have taught her better, a bunch of do-gooders and gov’t poverty pimps have dulled the lesson! She is “playing her way” through life, and is 32 going on 13. So, though she claims to be conservative, she lives like a Lib!
The best thing this boy’s parents can do is love him, NEVER bail him out of ANYTHING, and Live Conservative!!! Hopefully he will come around.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:03pmThe liberal pressure in schools especially will effect a weak commitment. He will regain his common sense in middle age. Liberalism seems to effect the young and weak of mind.
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:06pmHe’s like John McCain, a media whore that’s 100 years his younger.
Report Post »realindependent
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:15pmBWAHAAHAAAHAA epic fail… consevabots
Report Post »jsciai
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:22pmOut of the mouth of Babes–I think Churchill is attributed to have said, “If you‘re not Liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you‘re not Conservative when you’re 35, you have no brain.”
This kid hasn’t a brain yet. The real question is if he will be able to grow a brain given the direction he is heading. Time will tell.
Report Post »Saving_the_Republic.com
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:31pmWho cares another ones bites the dust….. Why would we care what a child has to say about whats going on in the first place? As informed as he may be he has yet to experience the real world. Dont care how smart he is or what he knows until he walks in the footsteps of many in this country he views are irrelevant. He is no different than BHO or anyone else book who is book smart. Get a job pay bills have your life pulled out from under you then run your mouth, I dont want to hear from some kid living in a protected bubble!
This doesn’t deserve face time here… c’mon Blaze get it together
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:32pmYou cannot be Conservative…. and get… Good Grades from Liberal Teachers & Professors… dates with Flukers… Nice Jobs in Government or most Corporations!
The Price of a Soul is….
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:38pmPublic schools finally got him.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:40pm@JSciai
“I think Churchill is attributed to have said, “If you‘re not Liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you‘re not Conservative when you’re 35, you have no brain.””
Common mis-attribution to Churchill. While the true source isn’t known, it is now believed to be a rephrasing of a quote from 19th century French politician Francois Guizot, who quipped: “Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.”
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:07pm.
Report Post »“Remember Jonathan Krohn?”
No, and I don’t care.
Tomorrow he‘ll announce he’s gay, and I still won’t care.
Get a job, kid.
Drives Like Jehu
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:12pmHe looks like Dave Foley did on Newsradio; no wonder he is a libbie.
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:12pmAnother “Commiecrat” is born. Someday they will all realize the err of their ways and their failure to study history. Communism never works, it is doomed to failure and fail is what it will do.
Report Post »Redd
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:16pmwhen will his book “defining communism” be out.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:26pmPJ O’Rourke would be unfazed by his “conversion”. The becoming more conservative is more from your 20s thru your 60s, than look at a small slice of life from 13 to 17. Like people pointed out, he hasn’t been clobbered by taxes yet.
Report Post »WIjoyzie
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:39pmThis kid will realize one day he’s on the hook to pay back 17-plus trillion dollars… and with obamacare that figure is likely to double or triple. Good luck government-owned serf!
Report Post »ProPatriaVigilans
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:59pmJROOK,
Report Post »Do you know why Exxon gets a $5 billion tax credit. Any Idea? How about enlightening us. I doubt a libtart like yourself could even answer without having to look it up.
db321
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:13pmBet his parents are proud!
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:16pmAlmost all of us take that turn to the dark side as teenagers…and we do it because we think it will get us chicks. He’ll be back some day.
Report Post »Ethereal
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:17pmFunny, “I was thirteen.” So I guess at the wise old age of 17 all of your naivety is gone lol.
Report Post »mils
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:49pmas the little signs say….ask a teenager while he still believes he knows everything…New York U deserves him.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:56pmNo wonder – he is the incarnation of the kid that knocked up Bristel Palin. He is still going around fathering kids and skipping out. This kid was just ticked that he wasn’t called on at age 17. Now he will be on the view and all those liberal shows. Falling under the Democratic Banner. That means all money made will be tax free. Remember Charlie Rangel and 6 people that had to turn down Obama when he was selecting zars, except the only man that could save the USA – Turbo Timmy.
Report Post »Munsonmanor
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 7:58pmHow do we know that he was really a Conservative in the first place? This could be the Republican version of Obama Girl. We all remember her right? Well, now she‘s coming back saying she’s disappointed with Obama just to get herself back in the public eye. I guess now he’ll write a book saying how wrong he was in the first book. Gee, almost sounds like a flip flopping politican now doesn’t he?
Report Post »Optimist4now
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:08pmSeventeen, hardly the pinnacle of maturity. Thank God he is niether a political genius or old enough th vote. I’m sure he will come around to his sanity when his hard earned stuff becomes the stuff of those who do not earn. Hope springs eternal.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:23pmIt’s Damion OMEN part 4
Report Post »Redd
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:32pmthe boy must be a ******, the first words out of his mouth at age 17 are “gay marriage”, not high tuition, jobs, vast debt, war etc.
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:58pmI was a conservative at 12 and 13, but didn’t know or care what a liberal or conservative was.,but I never rebelled against common sense. So I guess I was a staunch conservative even then. And when the first bill,rent,mortgage, student loans, and car payment is made, this little boy, will open his eyes and realize he denied his first natural instinct he was brought up with. But, I guess he won’t have to pay for much with everything being subsidized by his parents, this Prez, and a newly endangered species… the WORKING AMERICAN TAXPAYER.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:14pmThis kid always reminded me of those churches who had “preachers” who were 2 years old, up on stage blabbing nonsense and all the adults saying, “AMEN!“ and saying stuff like ”The holy spirit is speaking through him”. They were actually trying to use their religious belief to rationalize what was being done and not just realizing like that kids like to yell loud nonsense.
Sit down son, it’s time for the adults to talk.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:53pmAnd that analogy is fitting just like it should because it was said that in your early years to include your teen years you become liberal since you have been dependent on your parents for food clothing and shelter. And as you get your first job and have to pay bills to survive by the time your like in your 40‘s or 50’s you begin to or change to the Conservative way of thinking at least on financial matters and then when you realize that financial and social affect each other you go complete when you see that you now as a parent to a new generation you have provided them with food clothing and shelter until they leave for college.
The circle then completes and life goes on.
Report Post »socialism.rocks
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:59pmtexas he learned a simple rule… that all resources are publicly owned and capitalism is just a tool of allocation of those resources…
when you learn that capitalism is just a tool and conservativism dont work anywhere in the world….
is when you change….
there is not a single net producing red-state they all have the highest poverty..while the more liberal a state is the more wealthly it is…
proof is always in the pudding conservatism leads to universal poverty… and liberalism leads to universal wealth….
Report Post »damn those evil socialists
From Virginia
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:11pmHe hit puberty and is now an idiot. Haven’t we all been there. When he gets a job and starts paying taxes he might grow up and remember what principles actually lets him keep his money in his pocket.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:23pmIt’s very hard for any young student not to be brainwashed into leftist politics, given the kind of propaganda that’s preached by teachers from their taxpayer funded podiums – as shown in “Marxist Valley College” at Youtube. http://tinyurl.com/44btbq8
Twelve years of relentless leftist indoctrination, topped off with four more years of even more intense leftist indoctrination (heavily subsidized by taxpayers) is the root cause of the ruination of America, IMO. Defund and ban the federal Dept. of Education!
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:37pmHe’ll be back.
When I was in college I once voted for (shudder) BILL CLINTON!
The smart ones always come back.
or
He’s gay. In which case…..probably not.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:54pmFirst of all JROOK is right of course. The poorest pay a greater percentage of their income on taxes than anyone else when you look at all taxes, including payroll taxes, gas taxes and sales taxes and other consumption taxes. Percentage-wise they pay a lot more of their income on taxes than Romney does with his 14% tax rate even if they don’t pay income tax.
Second, this teenager is pretty typical. He a smart guy who is educating himself. More educated people tend to be liberal, partly because they’re exposed to more ideas outside the indoctrination they received as children, something uneducated people never experience. And perhaps he met some people in school who were different from him but still were okay people.
The German philosopher Nietzsche gave the basis for Rand’s ultraconservative political philosophy. This kid didn’t become liberal from reading Nietzsche, unless he rejected his idea, and Rand’s, that the most powerful have a right to rule the world and subject the rest of us to their whims and drive everyone into poverty to enrich themselves.
My view? He became liberal because he realized there are more people in this world than just him, and perhaps he realized that the basic human instinct of altruism that Christ tried to cultivate in others was a value that was important to him.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:55pmWhy did conservatives give a 13-yo center stage? Why was he turned into a celeb? That’s what the stupid, irresponsible LIBERALS do. This kid should never have been given the opportunity to write a book at our expense. We turned him into a spoiled brat, and now we blame the kid for being his normal rebellious self. Sex is now uppermost in his mind, and that’s life when you’re 17, but he should be just an ordinary kid, not an ex-conservative “spokeschild.” Hope it’s a lesson learned for our camp.
Report Post »sinsay7
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:16pmas children, we are mentally incapable of understanding the world. That’s what makes so many young people liberals. What is hard to explain, is how so many adults stay that way.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:23pm@3MONKEYSMOMMA
Report Post »When I was in college I once voted for (shudder) BILL CLINTON!
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lol. It’s insane to let college kids vote. Young people don’t think for themselves, until they have to work for a living. Healthy young adults who stay under their parents’ TaxedCare up to age 26 should be treated as underage children. The legal voting age should be 26 for young people who have not worked full time for at least a year after turning 18. Something like that.
Unix
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:38pmthere is a saying, if you’re not a liberal when you are 20 you have not heart, if you are not a conservative then your 40 them you have no brain….give em some time i guess
Report Post »yeahook
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:46pm@RICKC34 Kant was devoutly religious, practically a theologian. Wittegenstein‘s main idea is that a lot of philosophical problems are caused by philosopher’s screwing with the everyday common sense meanings of words, so a lot of philosophy is just academic b.s., an idea that seems pretty conservative to me. Nietzsche was definitely an atheist, but he also hated antisemitism, thought Jesus was a great man, and promoted individualism above all else. If you read his work you could tell he would have opposed a lot of democratic economic policy.
Report Post »TunaBlue
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:49pmHe’s 17, do we need to say more. Who cares what he believes, he can’t even vote.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:03amThis shouldn’t be news. I can’t believe both parties engage in dragging minors through the mud pits of ideology. Geez! Let the kid grow up!
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:03amWho the hell cares what this little punk ass says?
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:25amj rook you also seem to forget the income tax is a progressive income tax… meaning those who dont hit a certain level of income pay 0 to the federal… and pay 0 to the state…. yes they pay sales tax and liscening fees etc, but on the other hand many people are privledge to other forms of assistance.. medicade, welfare, section 8 housing… so your right… life is hard making a working wage, but on the other hand they do not pay close to 40% of their wages in TAXES… you fool….
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:32amJZS….. ROMNEY PAYS CAPITAL GAINS TAX… NOT INCOME TAX…. your 14 percent means #*&^….. WHY SHOULD MITT ROMNEY ALSO NOT PAY 14% SALES TAX… AND 14% income and 14% capital gains…. THESE ARE ALL DIFFERNT TAXES AND TO SAY becuase 1 person pays 14% cap gains, that a person who pays mor than 14% of income, THAT IS NOT FAIR… SHOWS YOUR A MORON… THEY ARE DIFFERENT TAXES WITH DIFFERENT PURPOSES, AND REASONS FOR HAVING A DIFFERENT RATE… YOUR ARUGUMENT OF THEM NOT BEING “FAIR” shows your IGNORANCE…..
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:00amI’d like to see a recent photo of this young lad.
What? You say I can only view one from OWS riots or from the basement of JZS?
Well, that about says it all. Hope he likes his new Rainbow condoms and Preparation H.
Report Post »NukeHaze
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:11amArrogant arse then, arrogant arse now. This neocon is nowhere near as smary as he thinks he is. With age comes wisdom which is far more valuable than all the liberal schooling indoctrination he has now been assaulted and surroinded with.
Neocon unworthy of my or theBlaze’s time.
Loser… MOVE ON (.org)
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:15amOn second thought, maybe he was planning on going to Penn State and is just a bit upset that his mentor JZSandusky is no longer there?
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:44amSo wait, he was just repeating everything his parents said?
Sounds like it’s in lock step with religion.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:57amSo he stopped listening to all the BS he had been fed and decided to make up his own mind. If only Blazers were that smart
Report Post »raiderglenn
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:24amsomewhere there is a hot chick, who is a rabid lib-tard, who sucked this guy into the trap… I just know it… LOL!
Report Post »milez5
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:47amWell he may indeed grow out of it. but far too many don’t.
Report Post »Quack Addict
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:05amHe will be back. If he makes it through his 20s being a doosh.
Report Post »Squishy10
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:34am“It’s a 13-year-old kid saying stuff that he had heard for a long time.… I live in Georgia.”
Report Post »FYI your still a kid. When your in your 30′s and barring you are not on welfare like the rest of the deadbeats then we will talk.
kryptonite
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:39am@RAIDERGLENN
Report Post »somewhere there is a hot chick, who is a rabid lib-tard, who sucked this guy into the trap… I just know it… LOL!
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Am I supposed to interpret that literally? Regardless, methinks you’re right; or maybe it’s a not-so-hot Chuck.
SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:45amHe want’s to date a girl, but her parents are BO supporters. Simple as that.
Report Post »Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:50amThe kid grew up and wised up, which is more than most people here can say about themselves. Education and free thinking, not just parroting, are signs of reason and intelligence. Conservatives seem to fear education and intelligence. And they wonder why America has declined so much. You are producing a nation of utter nitwits.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:52am@DJR He’ll be back when he matures.
Report Post »Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:15amSWAMPY, the fact that you would equate Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Kant with Hitler just proves how clueless you are. Oh and now Obama is a Nazi? I thought he was a Muslim Communist Fascist Marxist Kenyan? Make up your mind.
MIL-DOT and the rest of you claiming he was indoctrinated. You don’t get it. He was indoctrinated prior to being educated and gaining the ability to think for himself. Conservatives and religion oppose free thought.
WOJCIECH W: He scammed stupid people, like the organizers at CPAC, Fox News (who interviewed him, Newt Gingrich (who offered to write the forward to his book), Karl Rove (who called him his “Mini-Me”) as well as the tens of thousands who rushed out to buy his book. You mean fools like those? You have no clue about him, his background or his parents so you decided to make stuff up because it eases the sting?
JSCIAI: There is no record of Churchill ever speaking these words, and it is highly unlikely that he would have because Churchill himself did precisely the opposite. He entered politics as a Conservative and was a Conservative at age 25. He switched to the Liberal Party at age 29 and was a Liberal at age 35. See how an education can prevent you from embarrassing yourself?
RICK34: Your comments are almost unintelligible. I mean, seriously. Please see my previous comment about education.
SOCIALSM.ROCKS: Well put. The most rational and truthful thing I have read on this yet.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:20amSmart kid. When they line us up alongside the ditch perhaps they won’t line him up also.
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:18amSo now he’s seventeen….SEVENTEEN!
Guess he’s all done figuring it all out.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:52amTexas Chris With Obama as his daddy, he won’t have to get a job or write his first check..he’ll get a free Debit card to buy food, free money, rent controlled housing, etc. Of course he likes Obamacare, he can stay home in his mom’s basement and not have to be penalized for not having health care, his parents will. If I were one of his parents, he’d be out of the house at 18 and on his own.
Report Post »snowblind
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:53amOh no!!! What are we going to do now?!?!?
Report Post »badswing
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:03ami thought he was a jerk when he was a conservative 13 year old. now he is a jerk at 17. nothing changed as far as i am concerned
Report Post »1592
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:18amIf you‘re 20 and not a Lib you don’t have a Heart.
If you‘re 40 and not a Conservative You don’t have a BRAIN!
Only smart people are Conservatives unless they are on the take. Then they’re CROOKS!
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:44amSounds like a case of ‘if you can’t lick ‘em; join ‘em’………….I won’t live in their fantasy land where everyone is brow beat; wooseyfied; and acts like a bunch of idots;
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:59amDon’t worry. It’s just the first wave of testosterone. Hell get his brain back between his ears in a couple of years.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:10amHave NO idea who this kid is, and don’t really care.
Report Post »ChristmanWalking
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:29amWHY and I do mean WHY, did Anyone listen to him in the first place…? Hey KID, get a job and grow up!!! You’ll be crying soon.
Report Post »WIP
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:12amTexas Chris, that‘s not the first such conversion I’ve seen; the first one I saw was David Brock, the very guy who started Media Matters. I hadn’t even heard of the guy until I heard of a book he wrote, Blinded By The Right, when I later found out he had written books on Hillary Clinton and Anita Hill. What a waste he turned out to be.
Report Post »ChildOfTheKing
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:04amJQCitizen:
My Husband and I have also gone thru the same thing. Our kids became liberal AFTER moving out (so they could fit in their friends). They THOUGHT that when they got out from under our roof, that could do whatever they wanted. WRONG. They found out the hard way through paying taxes, taxes, and LAWS. THEY HATE IT because they can barely make ends meet. When they once HATED the capitalist, they now understand that it takes money to make money and without entrepreneurs, there would be no growth, no jobs, no choices. One of my sons jumps from job to job, barely able to make it. We said long ago that they could move home 5 times and then, that’s it. We made it 5 because WE KNEW that they would go from immaturity to maturity and eventually find their way on their own. They are still a bit immature, but they now think differently. They are not allowed to move home again, ever (unless, of course, something devastating happens in our country. They are struggling, but we encourage them to stand for conservative principles: hard work, endurance, and honesty, and they will make it. The one Son gets it and continues his uphill battles. The other one sort of does, but is still going on his merry way, blaming everyone for everything that happens to him. He will never be successful until he looks in the mirror and takes personal responsibility.
There’s IS a difference between progressives and conservatives: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:09amReality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass Read a little, all those German cooks were part of the same crowd promoting homosexuality, backing Hitler in their effort to legalize sodomy. And except for Kenyan, all those “forms” of government are the same damn things, just renamed / respun with slightly methods of attaining the same goal. Yes, there isn’t a nickles worth of difference between Obama, Hitler, Mao, Che, Stalin, they all are/were power hungry megalomaniacs, that think they can / should rule over all because they are the smartest person that has ever lived. I’ve found that 100% of the time you leftists say someone doesn’t have a clue, it’s just them knowing / believing a bunch of left lies.
Report Post »VegasLibertarian
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:09amHe may be back. This is a no-brainier. Here’s the deal, as sad as it is. Yeah, his early conservatism is a product of his environment. His popularity he gained from the book found him wanting to be “cool”. Unfortunately, liberalism is perceived as cool. Now that he’s a sweetheart for the libs, he may never return. The self righteous arrogance of the left coupled with his youth may prevent him from ever returning to the right. Poor kid. If a free-thinker can emerge as he gets older, he could return to the right.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 11:23amNow Monk. Try to behave yourself here. You’re not sounding very monk-like…
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:04pmThe falling away that Christ foretold.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:39pm@kryptonite.
I hear you…..But in my own defense, even at that young age, I was never a “Clinton fan”.
Its just when G.H. Bush started babbling on about the “new world order”, I didn’t know what that was, but I was pretty sure it wasn’t anything I wanted to be a part of…..and still don’t.
Report Post »WTF_People
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:57pmI’m amused by the amount of posters who attribute his switch to liberalism to school indoctrination….when he was homeschooled. I would argue that he was brainwashed/indoctrinated by his parents into conservatism. Glad to see him start to at least realize it isn’t just a one stop shop in the marketplace of ideas.
Report Post »bradtbird
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:34pmI agree with TEXAS CHRIS. He was 13…. and he’s still only 17. I don’t think he “bit the dust.” He’s just starting to live and think. His problem is that all he’s done is parrot. He parroted conservativism. Now he’ll parrot liberalism. He’ll be embraced and feel loved by the “popular people” as he goes through his personal catharsis. Then he’ll finish waking up, realize Nietzsche was a syphilitic nut job, Wittgenstein was an confused logicist with major daddy-issues, and Kant was probably OCD / paranoid (not dismissing everything they wrote, but none had lives to emulate). And if NYU doesn’t totally ruin him, he’ll get a job after graduation and realize that liberal mathematics don’t add up when he “write[s] that first check to the IRS while 50% of the population is on the dole.”
Report Post »liberty49
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:39pmYes our education system strikes again. Can’t wait until he finishes NYU!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:59pmsmokeysmoke, your caps lock is stuck on. Either that or you think a lot of capital letters makes your rambling post seem to make more sense that it actually does.
Report Post »Blazed-n-Confused
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:08pmHe’s 17, of course he will support more of a liberal side. Who takes this seriously? Can I restate again that he is 17…..Let that sink for a minute. Kid needs to grow up and listen to all people, not talk at this point in his life. Sounds like a minature dictator in the making.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:27pm@JZS
Report Post »You’re right that poor people pay more taxes than just their income tax alone would allow you to suspect, but both you AND Jrook fail to include the most egregious of the taxes they and the rest of us pay. You see, when you tax a COMPANY, the company folds that into the PRICE of their goods and services, so a very large chunk of everything the poor buy is also artificially inflated because of the hidden tax on consumers we call a “business tax”. Will you be consistent with your own recommendations and admit we should stop taxing corporations? Thought not.
You see, educated people aren’t always very smart, and they’re often VERY illogical. They think education grants them some kind of extra openness and wisdom, but they fail to see that their own haughtiness prevents them from understanding that true intelligence is acquired by correct application of principles. It CAN help them gain true understanding, and CAN expose them to new ideas, but only correct principles can help them navigate and judge wisely between the ideas-which is why many educated people become moral relativists like you.
Christ was right: we must become as little children to inherit the kingdom of God. As to how to become altruistic and serve others? Your liberal proposals so remove the human heart from this purpose that you obtain the opposite of your stated intent: oppression. Conservative solutions serve the poor much better.
Northpaw
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:35pmThe little **** has reversed the process of “If you are a conservative before you are 30 you have no heart if you are a liberal after 30 you have no brains.” The heartless one has until his 30th birthday to get a brain. Rush has well said, “liberalism is not an intellectual pursuit. Liberalism is basically the most gutless choice you can make. It’s nothing but emotion and feeling. They see a homeless person, ‘Oh, I feel so bad. Oh, look, I feel so bad, because I have sympathy I’m a good person.” Conservative sees a homeless person, “What are we going to do about that, that’s not good, this is not good for the country. We need to find a way to make that person productive.” ‘Ah,‘ the liberals say that’s not compassion. But conservatism is an intellectual pursuit and people that are turned on and inspired by conservatism will be active, intellectually involved in the program and liberals just cannot ascertain this active participation, active audience participation because there’s no intellect involved in liberalism, it’s purely emotion based.”
Report Post »barbwho2001
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:37pmWell, 17 now, and he knows it all…congrats kiddo…when you grow up, get back to us again… :)
Report Post »Goodforall
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:46pmGuess he is now one of those young people that Rush refers to with his “ead filled with mush” Maybe one day he will figure it out. I have never seen a consertative turn to liberalism before. What a waste.
Report Post »deanied
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:47pmKid is confused…wait till all his freedoms are gone! Smartin up KID!
Report Post »JBCOACH
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 3:23pmAnd I thought they didn’t become liberals until the *^&*()) professors got hold of them. This boy has regressed in his education.
Report Post »vwilson
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:06pmI wonder if he ever took Economics 101?? Even my twin 19 yr olds in college, took economics and they understand we can’t spend more than we take in. They understand that class warfare doesn’t bring in enough and that taxes are going to have to go up for everyone! 1 in 7 on foodstamps, versus 1 in 50 when Bush was in office. The massive taxes coming with Obamatax healthcare bill. They get all of that and said they will not vote for Obama. They want a life without a nanny state government! They get it!! Too bad this kid doesn’t.
Report Post »getreal4321
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:29pmUnfortunately, he’s not the first (nor the last) to get bamboozled. One notable conservative–>liberal conversion would be Ariana Huffington. The Emperor of the Dark Side is a master of deceit and spin and, sadly, even some of the very elect will be deceived before it’s all over. That‘s why it’s so very scary to send our kids out into academia, because it’s totally coopted by progressive politics/philosphy, all those depressive dead guys and anti-American harpies…
Report Post »HerrBeck
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:30pmYou see. Once someone starts down the road to an “education” they start getting all of these “liberal” ideas.
Report Post »Thankfully we have Herr Beck to help us “educate” our children the right way.
Well, except for those Mormon bits.
And the gold hoarding, but that is kind of Mormon… so…
Well.
Home school your children it is really the only way to protect your conservative ideals.
sickofpolitics
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:12pmCome on… He’s 17… he’s going thru his stupid phase that most of us go through. I‘m sure once he grows up he’ll be back.
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:27pmnot really. the kid is right in that in the beginning im sure he was parroting mucgh of the views he heard. he could not have the life experience required to know WHY conservative principals work. as a teen you then start to question everything and your views become whatever the opposite of your parents are, just to be different. this is where he is now. after he hits the real world for a few years, thoes conservative principals will automattivally make more sense and he will revert back. See conservative principals are complex responses to complex issues built over years and years. liberal ideas are based on simple childlike responses to complex problems. thats whuy liberals argue things like ‘fairness, happiness, and entitlements’ because these ideas only work for a child mentality. the desire to do what you want, have what you want, not work, and take what you want from someone you think dosent deserve it are all child concepts. conservatism is based on real world experience and simply are the ideas that work. let the boy have his fun. he will be back. “if your young and not liberal, you dont have a heart, if your old and not conservative, you dont have a brain”
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:04pmHe‘s going to be on MSNBC’s Chris Matthews show today (this hour).
Wonder if he looks like an OWS now?
Report Post »peptex
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:04pmMore like bites the “cawk” Prediction; Two year and he’s out of the closet!
Report Post »One_Man_Army
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:44pm@ SOCIALISM.ROCKS
Are you kidding me? lol The more liberal states have less poverty and greater wealth, huh? You could NOT be more wrong. Compare California, which has more debt than any other state in the nation, to Texas, please. California has had several years in a row of growth in its poverty rate. Now, throw in the vast majority of New York State, lol. Nice lie though.
Report Post »One_Man_Army
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:47pm@ JZS
Actually, JROOK is flat out WRONG and an outright LIAR. As a percentage of all their income, the poor pay much less than the middle class and rich do. This is proven by DECADES of tax data which is in the public record for ALL to see at the IRS website. You liberals can keep flat out lying though. It won’t change the facts proven by actual REALITY, lol.
Report Post »One_Man_Army
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:53pm@ REALITY_BITES_YOU_ON_THE_ASS
America is a country of nitwits because of idiot liberals who represent your FAILED ideology. It’s not conservatives who fear intelligence. Quite the contrary, it is liberals who fear intelligence considering that there is NOT A SINGLE intelligent liberal on this planet, lol.
Report Post »TeeLee
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 10:37pmINTHEALPINE – I absolutely LOVE your comment. It’s so TRUE!!!
Report Post »Shackleford
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:18amMaybe in his case his conservatism really was little more than his parroting of beliefs his conservative up bringing exposed him to. Just because conservative beliefs are rooted in logical and reason it does not mean a conservative believer used logic and reason to acquire their philosophy on life. A person can easily adopt the conservative beliefs if they were basically forced upon them, the only thing unusual here is that it’s usually easier for a gullible and naive person to adopt the Leftwing point of view because that philosophy appeals to our more primitive emotional gut.
If his conservative views really were the parroting of things he had soaked up then it’s only natural that as he grew into an older teen that he would soak in the pop culture that most teens are saturated with and would latch onto those beliefs too. I mean he watches The Daily Show for crying out loud! What do you expect would happen to someone who has already admitted they don’t apply independent thought to issues?
Report Post »tool4rage
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:31am@Jrook – Great soundbite rook. Now here’s some facts. Exxon, like all other oil companies, don’t get any special tax breaks. They get the same that any other business gets. I wonder though why G.E. didn’t have to pay any taxes?
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:35amHe’s 17. Puberty and rebellion go hand in hand.
Report Post »wandamurline
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:44amActually, wait until he tries to get his first job. He had better hope that the conservatives win in November, or he will be digging ditches.
Report Post »cmi
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:33pm“When I was 16, I was amazed at how stupid my dad was! When I turned 21, I was amazed at how much he had learned in 5 years!”
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:41pmHe was thirteen and now he is an idiot.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:58pmTypical teenager; Thinks he’s got all the answers. Of course he’s a liberal, he’s off to a NYU in the fall…..
“Go along to get along….”
Report Post »may40
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:05pmAbsolutely!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:51pmI remember in High School I had no idea what I was. Liberal sounded like the best choice, but really had no idea what that meant. Yup! Churchill was right, by 30 I finally learned the difference and became a Conservative. Thank goodness Winston, I do have a brain, Yea!
Never been sorry. In fact, when I’m around libs, I immediately know who they are because of how they act and what they say and would never choose them for a close personal friend.
Report Post »This boy will learn someday who and what he is.
CABERNETQHS
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:40amWell now that he is all of 17 he knows the truth…Please! His frontal lobe is still developing. Maybe he’ll mature into an adult unless he is completely brainwashed @ NYU
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:04amAs a young kid I was a social conservative, then became liberal as a late teenager and young adult. I voted for Clinton BOTH times for heavens sake! Then after my daughter was born I began waking up to the reality that the liberal philosophy embodied few of the core values that I believe in and wanted my daughter to embrace. I think progressive liberal thought is so prevalent with youth because too often youth are so self-obsessed and selfish. Liberalism caters to and even encourages the “ME NOW!” entitlement mentality. At best, liberalism presents itself as charity, but it is in fact a form of cowardice that demands that others be forced to perform the work. In most cases the liberals will proclaim “HELP THE VICTIMS!” and then desperately try to place themselves into a category of victimhood.
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:14amHmmm,17 years old! Like most of us at that age, maybe the hormones have taken over for his brain! Perhaps he has discovered the art of “saying and doing whatever it takes to get into some little liberal girls pants”.
Report Post »mersey
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:24amHe’ll be back. Indoctrination is a powerful tool of the left. I think it was Churchill who said the following….”If you‘re not Liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you‘re not Conservative when you’re 35, you have no brain.”
Report Post »dannyo
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:57pmthe day i see a white liberal living in the middle of an inner city anywhere in the usa and buying his neighbors a five dollar foot long day after day after day and hiring them to cut his lawn, repair his house, work at his business, etc., is the day i, too, will become a liberal..safe to i will remain a conservative FOREVER…
Report Post »JediKnight
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:57pmAnd at 17 he knows everything, right? This is exactly why the Founders made the age of the Presidency 37. Peoples minds change all the time. Usually, by your mid 30s, you’ve learned enough that your opinions are pretty much going to be set in stone.
I’d bet that within the next 10 years, he changes his mind back at least somewhat.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:21pmWhen he grows up, he’ll learn how to tie his shoes. What a dolt.
Report Post »DarthMims
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:25pmI think you meant to type 35, but I agree with what you said about setting that age (the oldest age requirement for elected office). It takes a while to bring together everything you have heard and reconcile it with what you have lived. For those very lucky ones, a political ideology is formed that is not easily swayed by one extreme or the other, but holds the center fast.
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:56pmThis is America and anyone is free to change their mind in decision making. Some times we make the wrong choices but we soon wise up sooner or later…Obamatax is not for me as I know of no one that didn’t get help when they needed it in case of an emergency. We have a choice early in life whether to chose insurance or not and my choice has always been yes, I did not use for years and I thank God for that. My life style is heterosexual but he is free to believe whatever he wants to as long as it doesn’t interfere with my God given right. I know where I stand with God…. Obamatax is going to harm a lot of seniors so young man you better think about that because old age comes before you know it
Report Post »krod2516
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:55pmlol, he must be so wise at 17. smh
Report Post »OUT THE REGRESSIVES
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:54pmHey kid, when you get out into the real world, you will come back from the dark side.
Report Post »It may take a long time with all the indoctrination you have gone through, and will go through.
Try reading something besides socialistic crap.
tkjr
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:01pmand start working and paying taxes as well.
Report Post »ferggie
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:15pmMaybe when you actually get a job and your boss looks you in the eye and tells you the work you just did sucks and if you don’t get your act together he is going to FIRE YOUR WORTHLESS A$$ you will wake up. Or maybe you will just give your mommy a call and tell her that a bad man is talking mean to you. Wake up you worthless POS before it is too late.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:53pmOk, so he wanted a pony for his 14th birthday and didn’t get it…so now he is a liberal.
Kind of like athiests. Once HE answers their prayer with a “no”…God no longer exists and us believers are sheep just being controlled.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:19pm“He received a computer from his maternal grandfather for his 13th birthday. “In the Jewish culture in which my mom was raised, 13 is a big deal,” he said. “But since I’m a Jewish Christian, I don’t do a bar mitzvah.” (Decades ago, his mother became a Baptist.)”
http://tzvee.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-jonathan-krohn-jewish.html
Report Post »Neils60
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:23pmThe_Jerk, What you left out was the FACT that his mother became a Baptist many years ago, not that there’s anything wrong with being a Baptists, well before she married his Baptist father. Let‘s hope that there’s still some hope for him, after he experiences the hypocrisy of the left while in college. As far as you’re concerned, “The_Jerk”…, your self-described descriptor says it all.
Report Post »Curious Visitor
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:58amI’m assuming God has answered one of your prayers in the affirmative. What proof do you have of this event? Can you share it with the rest of it? I promise if you offer my verifiable evidence that you spoke to someone in your mind and asked for something, and then received it as a direct result of divine intervention, I will become a believer.
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:53pmHe just wants a free ride in college.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:53pmYup, proof he’s a liberal? He uses CAPITALSIM to make money THEN he poo poos it! lol
Report Post »voodoolife
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:40pmHaha! So much truth in that!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:52pmIn three years his mind changed completely. IN THREE YEARS. Who has been running the show for those three years?
Report Post »The liberals, the homosexuals, the atheists and of course Obama have had a great influence on this boy. What a shame.
Seabass82
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:57pmpop culture
Report Post »WTF_People
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:07pmEasy on the bigotry, mom…You sound like one of those Westboro parishioners right now.
Report Post »Felixinmontana
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:52pmHe is a pretty smart kid, he will be back…Listening to his public educated peers right now.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:37pmI agree with you. The kid is “evolving” and questioning life but NOT what his future holds for him. Live and learn is life’s lessons. He does have his “core-beliefs“ but is attracted to the ”artificial-light” for now. God is patience with us and this young man’s purpose will be revealed “down-the-road”. We “old-war-horses” who learned late in life would Love to talk to him, but he thinks “he knows it all” so….good luck with that, young man. Yikes!
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:52pmWe’ll see when he turns 27, no longer on mommy and daddy’s health care and is paying his own taxes.
Should have asked him were he stood on the whole “wiping out all the jews” thing considering who his favorite philosophers are.
Report Post »socialism.rocks
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:02pmall those germans were jews you digbat
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:52pmFact is, he was never a conservative to begin with. Just a kid repeating what his parents said. Ah well.
Just like a 40 year old man turning away from Christianity; he was never a Christian to begin with. Just a false convert…plenty of those around.
Report Post »crazyrightwingmom
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:13pmI agree his opinions always seemed rehearsed, as if from someone else. Let him earn a paycheck…if he ever has to!
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:05pmyou mean if he ever gets to. i just listened to an article on cavuto about kids who voted in the last election for the first time and got screwed. some of them are actually realizing that gov doesn’t fulfill your dreams. it takes them away.
Report Post »Jaimo
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:51pmWell, I guess I wouldn’t mind sticking this little *astard with the cost of Obamacare. I hope he lives a long life paying for his elders’ healthcare and Social Security.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:51pmA Jewish Christian. They always find liberalism and a move to the kibbutz.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:51pmdisgusting, but just goes to show how communism DEEPLY affects the youth in our schools. this is a self-absorbed spoiled kid who will wear a brownshirt and turn his own parents in to obama’s death squads if he had the chance.
Report Post »antitheist
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:19pmI just imagined your scenario in my head. I couldn’t stop laughing from the implausibility of that and realized only a paranoid mind could have created it.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:29pmYou do realize the YOU would have been one of Hitler’s followers? They thought that “implausible, too.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:50pmLet me guess .. .Public School ??? .. Government class … ??? Especially those who teach “government” are run by Marxists — that I have found … and indoctrination is their goal .. it takes someone strong to resist .. this kid isn’t it.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:48pmYes, yes, it’s all a conspiracy.
Report Post »beachmom
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:50pmSo now instead of parroting his parents, he’s parroting his liberal teachers.
Report Post »Wait til he starts working and paying for things himself.
He’s just a kid and is experimenting.
Wonder if he knows John Stewart puts some of his assets in his pets’ names?
Silversmith
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:50pmStill 17. How’s that different from before? Still a shill.
Silversmith
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:30amHe’ll “do the loop”. Many of us did. He needs to actually experience what life is before he finds his bearings.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:49pmHe’s gay.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:57pmJust like Anderson Cooper .. .though it took a heck of a long time for him to admit what everyone else could SEE ;-)
Report Post »tkjr
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:59pmhaha. crossed my mind as well
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:13pmI think so too, seventeen is soooo old to know what is going on in his and his politics.
Report Post »68Patriot
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:29pmBingo!
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:48pmbrainwashed nonchristian
if you are a conservative and don’t have a higher power, its easy to say “gay marriage is good” because you dont have a moral/spirtual guidance telling you it isn’t
call that old fashioned or close minded, but it is true
call muslim’s closeminded to beheaded their kids, not christians for saying something is a sin and not beheading the person
Report Post »beachmom
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:48pmHe’s a kid and still immature and rebelling. And if he‘s watching Stewart and Colbert for news he’s not informed anymore. So now, instead of parroting his parents, he’s parroting his liberal teachers.
Report Post »I guess still not thinking for himself if you use his standards.
FreeThinkerDave
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:11pmHmm…according the the study done here: http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/final.pdf, Daily Show viewers are better informed than most. Especially viewers of Faux News.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:31pmYeah right Dave-ha ha ha. Run with that one buddy-lol
Report Post »wildbluyonder11
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:33pmHmmm…according to this study done by Barack Obama, people really like Barack Obama.
Report Post »FreeThinkerDave
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 8:52am@Mil-Dot – I’ll run with facts any day. Sure beats the nothing you’re providing. I’m not trying to troll this website, just trying to have a conversation and point out that there is a widely accepted and discussed study out there that directly refutes a statement made by the original poster. Refute it with an alternate study or information, or crawl back inside the conservative bubble. Putting your fingers in your ears and saying “Nuh-uh” doesn’t hold a lot of weight.
@Wildblu – who said I like Obama?
Report Post »januscatinhat
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 2:38pmTrue, parroting the teachers. Put my son through private high school without knowing he could not pass exams without putting forth extremely conservative views. He has done really well by hard work and good reasoning, but I had read that young adults’ brain does not reach maturity until age 24. Then fully formed thoughts with rational insight may be formed and communicated effectively. This kid has barely begun to live, but should he become an intellectual-type, he is making inroads with his publicity. Probably has a good income coming in already, huh?
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:48pmOk, now get a job and pay for your own schooling….
Report Post »And let’s see how long you stay liberal…..
338lapua
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:46pmThat is SOOOOO cute!
Report Post »Little pooky is entering a rebellious period.
ONLY4UANDME
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:51pmlol !
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:58pm;-)
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Report Post »williaml
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:40amthats right, he will become a human in a few years. wait, he is also gay.
Report Post »Hobo Boondocks
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:55amIt’s interesting how a person’s view of morality may change and how that impacts their political views. Gross immorality and gross liars like Obama seem to go hand in hand. Neither party is trustworthy but like many others, the pipsqueak kid is going to have a rude awakening.
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