‘This Is My Fight’: Former ‘Lil’ Limbaugh‘ Tells The Blaze Why He’s Now Liberal (and an Atheist), Answers His Critics, and Even Shares His Still-Conservative Position
- Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:41am by
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Conservative-turned-liberal Jonathan Krohn. (Picture: submitted)
It‘s 93 degrees in Jonathan Krohn’s hometown of Atlanta, GA. But it’s much hotter under his collar.
By now you know the name — you likely did three years ago, too. Krohn, 13 at the time, delivered a rousing three-minute speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference about the greatness of conservatism. He became an overnight star with multiple appearances on Fox News. He was praised by Newt Gringrich, posed for pictures with Mitt Romney, and was dubbed a “Lil’ Limbaugh.”
Was.
Now, he‘s decided he’s no longer a “conservative,” and instead embraces positions much more liberal. And he’s talking to The Blaze about it. All of it.
How to describe a transition without describing a transition
In general, Krohn tries to deny that he’s “transitioned” from conservatism to liberalism.
“I’m not transitioned to another ideology,” he says from his mother‘s silver car parked outside his grandma’s retirement home. “I keep saying I really want to be myself. I don‘t’ want to be identified as this ideology or that ideology.”
Either way, he embraces Obamacare, gay marriage, and abortion — his social conservatism, he says, was the first thing to go.
He throws out sentences such as “when I was conservative,“ and says ”my views are a lot more liberal than they are conservative.“ He slips in phrases like ”the ideological anger that comes from the right.” And if you point that out, he admits that it’s hard to describe his story without using widely-accepted terms.
“I see that, and I agree,” the 17-year-old, with black plastic glasses and slightly disheveled hair, admits. “My problem with calling myself something is I’ve had bad experiences labeling myself. And I feel that the problem is that if you label yourself you get locked into an ideology with all the trappings. You have every little thing you have to agree to to be a part of an ideology, you know?”
He continues: “It’s just a bad thing, I think. It’s not how ideologies are supposed to work. You should have some individuality within that. Part of what drove me away was that lack of individuality.”
But what you might not realize is that his fear of being locked into a certain set of viewpoints doesn‘t mean he couldn’t eventually adopt some conservative principles again.
“I‘m just saying that the moment I agree with something that’s not necessarily left-wing, it’s not going to be me betraying somebody and having this big broo-haha on Twitter,” he says, mimicking a sinister voice.
In fact, all this doesn’t mean he toes the liberal line on everything. In the left’s rush to claim him, they may have overlooked what he told me was a “tough” question: What positions, if any, do you have that could be considered conservative?
Surprisingly, he says, he still extolls personal responsibility, would like to see less government spending (with a caveat) and he’s not a fan of Fast and Furious.
To be fair, it’s not a hearty, meat-and-potatoes answer. There are plenty of pauses to think about it. Still, he manages to eek out an answer:
“I still hold [pause]. I still think … I like the idea of people being personally responsible; it’s a good idea. But I really don’t– I can‘t think of any particular policy ideas that I’m 100 percent in favor of.”
What about government spending?
“I think everyone thinks we should decrease government spending!” he says excitedly. “I don‘t think that’s only conservatives. It‘s just I think the problem is it’s just not as easy as saying that.”
But if he had to settle on one thing, it involves the issue du juor of sending guns to Mexico.
“I think it was a bad idea to send guns to Mexico to drug cartels.” Still, he’s quick to sneak in a qualifier: “But once again I don’t think anyone thinks that was a good idea! If you think that’s a good idea, obviously you don’t know what it is.”
“Should Eric Holder have to testify? Yeah, It was a bad idea. It’s not smart. Nobody agrees with it.” The president’s stonewalling, he adds, is him just trying to make the problem go away before the election, plain and simple and “for good reason.”
So how have people reacted to his coming out party? Ask “The Hulk”
“Most of the people in the world have been very nice about it,” he explains, “it’s just that the people who are not nice are extremely vocal about it.”
He’s received supportive tweets from people across the country. The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein mocked a conservative article critical of Krohn. And even the “Incredible Hulk” got involved — actor Mark Ruffalo, who was on the show with Bill Maher when Maher took a shot at Krohn on Friday, told Krohn he had nothing but “serious respect” for the 17-year-old:
“A lot of people in the news area have been supportive of this,” Krohn says, his voice falling somewhere between rapid annunciation and Christmas-morning excitement.
Still, not everyone has flocked to offer support. He’s a “little shit” to some. A “douche” to others. But in response to all of them, he’s incessant.
“You would have supported me two minutes ago before the Politico piece came out if I would have asked to be in the Tea Party!” he says, after relaying a story about a Tea Party leader who criticized him.
“These same people were the same people that supported me, and now you’re just dissing me as a human being. The general reaction from a lot of conservatives hasn’t been nice.”
But while the names are uncalled for, there does seem to be room for legitimate criticism. After all, just three years ago he was extolling the virtues of conservatism and now he can’t stop talking about, well, Kant — all while getting his message out through liberal stalwarts like Lawrence O’Donnell. People are genuinely curious as to why.
Part of the “why” involves his study of philosophy. In his eyes, he was being too closed-minded, and philosophy opened him up. And when that happened, his old beliefs started flying out like bats from a cave.
“I‘m just tired of people calling me ’that conservative kid,’” he explains, adding later: “That is not a fun monocher to have when you don’t agree with conservative policies anymore. It’s very hard, because then I have to explain to everybody every time why I don’t agree with that anymore.”
He speaks of the last two days like an Atlas Shrugged-like weight coming off his shoulders. While he’s not been secretive about his transition over the last year or so, he hasn’t had a large enough microphone. Until now.
“Now that this is out there, people know why.”
But is it a ploy? There are those who have accused him of simply seeking attention and being willing to do whatever it takes to get it. After all, he just started a blog (collegiatenerd) and is trying to find funding for a “postmodern, dark satire about modern American life composed of a series of unrelated vignettes and called ‘Broke in New York City.’”
“I don‘t know where they’re getting that,” he says of critics who have accused him of basking in the limelight and using the last two days to further his ambitions. In the end, he says, he just wanted to finally be finished being put in a box.
“People like to find a conspiracy. They like to think I’m doing this for some darker purpose. It has nothing to do with that! I am a good person!”
“Come on, really?” he adds after being asked about his intentions in a different way. “If somebody hears about my film because of this I‘m not going to say ’no.‘ But that’s not why I did this.”
“This is my fight”
He talk about his mother, Marla, fondly. He gets most agitated not when talking about conservative critics, but rather when talking about conservative critics who have attacked her.
She’s stuck by him throughout the process, which he says hasn’t been easy for her. Not only has her son turned his back on his political beliefs, but he’s also rejected his Christian faith — he’s now an atheist (a byproduct of his philosophy studies).
“Making fun of my mother and saying things like that isn’t right, it’s not appropriate.”
“Things like that” are suggestions that his mother put him up to all this, or at least coached him how to milk it for all its worth. She’s a middle school acting teacher, after all, and critics point to a 2010 New York Times profile of him and his family that portrayed her in a slightly meddling light.
“She doesn’t support–,” he cuts himself off. “She’s not a liberal. She’s a conservative. She lost a friend over this!” That friend, he says, texted his mother to say “have a nice life” and that she could no longer be friends because of what Jonathan was doing.
“They are not overjoyed over this,” he says of his parents, “but they’re not angry with me.“ He throws out terms like ”nice“ and ”respectful” to describe their attitude. .
He then goes back to defending his mom.
“Leave her alone! She’s my mom. Moms are not part of this. This is my fight.”
So how did he get here?
While Krohn’s transition may be a surprise to some, he says it’s the product of a longtime-coming conversion.
“It’s been a while and nobody listened,” he says, explaining that he’s been broadcasting his new-found beliefs for some time. And while no one may have been listening before, they are now. After Maher referenced him on Friday, he contacted Politico reporter Patrick Gavin — who has written about Krohn before — to propose the idea of an article about where he stands. Gavin agreed. And now here he is.
His critics (even the liberal ones) say he switched sides because conservatism is “uncool.” Maybe. It is true that being young and conservative fight each other like wrong sides of a magnet. But consider that Krohn didn’t come to his realization by watching Angelina Jolie or listening to Justin Bieber. His decision was more an existential one. After studying philosophy for three years — reading the likes of Kant and Nizche — he’s become a different person. No faith. No Ronald Reagan posters. And no apologies.
“Back then I was really just saying stuff I heard on the radio a lot…and I just lived around conservative stuff all my life,” he says of his Georgia upbringing. “And I just said stuff I thought I believed, but I really didn’t know what I was saying enough to have a conversation about it. I knew enough to talk about it on television, but not enough to have a meaningful conversation about it. And I think that now I’ve had the time to sit down and think about what it is I personally as a human being I believe, that’s more about what this is.”
“I don’t want to keep focusing on all this past stuff,” he says later in the interview. “It boxes me in and people want to keep talking about the ‘kid who switched.’”
But at least for now, they’ll keep talking. Keep debating.
Still, “I didn’t do this because of that” he assures again regarding the attention he’s received and the discussion about his future plans. ” I just wanted to have a better life of not being called ‘that conservative kid’ anymore.”
And while he has many dreams for the future, at least that one has come true.
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Comments (287)
SamIamTwo
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:56amCollege brings out the compassionate side once again. Trying to make everyone work together for a better world. Prop wants to fit in…melting into the cauldron of goats head soup.
Oh well, he’ll come back when he gets out of college and gets a job.
He is taking on the Neo-Marxist way of thinking…the compassionate side but wait till the violent side erupts.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:41amWhy give this twit the time of day?
Report Post »John 1776
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:48amLiberal, Conservative, Libertarian, None really by themselves bother me.
Report Post »It is the Progressive viewpoint in all parties the frightens me. It’s like a horror move where the dead hand of failed European Socialism/Marxism beckons from the grave-
“Come this way, we will progress together”….
It tries to lure us back to the thousands of years of tyranny that we fought a revolution to free ourselves from.
Quiata
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:53amHe’s just following the pattern of most child stars…..
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:06pmHow could he like both small government AND Obamacare?
Those things are polar opposites!
The Christian writer CS Lewis became an atheist through college and young adulthood until the JRR Tolkien led him back to Christ. You’re not smarter than either of those men, Jonathan. Don‘t let your arrogance or desire to placate people who don’t matter let you paint yourself into a philosophical corner.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:15pmIt’s just the media creating another Jewish liberal celebrity. No more, no less.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:20pmHere you go! Here is the perfect example of continuous brainwashing by far left liberal High School teachers and even more far left University professors. This is how the FEMA camps will brainwash conservatives in the future, after the governmet decides thay are “Danger to Society”.
These same “Educators” will brainwash your children or grandchildren if we are not vigilant!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:31pmStarman70, it has already begun. The International Baccalaureate program (IB for short) has partnered up with UNESCO. They are supplying our schools with their indoctrination program sold under the guise of education. Districts’ tax dollars are sent off to Switzerland to pay for this un-American program.
As is always the case, liberal, progressive, academia is the prime mover. Uninformed parents are the victims.
Report Post »Steelheadisadouche
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:38pmJerky
Report Post »Where is the importance of the jewish thing again? Had to work it in huh?
Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:53pmWell, I would like to be the first to wish him a happy DEpendece DAY……
Report Post »mediaaccess
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 2:30pmWell said. I won’t be buying anymore of his books unless he recovers.
Report Post »Saving_the_Republic.com
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 3:19pm@The_Jerk
Report Post »Im 10000% with you. cannot for the life of me understand why tis CHILD who has no clue on anything is being so much “airtime”! If anything he is an example of a puppet, regurgitating what he heard and got a book out of it and made some speeches. He is all textbook NO REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE… just like the Emperor. He has no clue hasn’t experienced the real world yet. He is a teen and they all get rebellious with the gimme gimme attitude. Lets see this little jerk in 10 years when he has a job, bills to pay and real responsibilities he cannot meet b/c of lib policies he is now preaching!
Patrick Henry II
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:41pmA lot of voids in his logic. Of course he was selected by the elite in the first place. These people would NEVER want to hear my sons political or philosophical views. He would put almost all talking heads in their place without hesitation. Know that an interview or CPAC speech will never happen form the real thing.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:42pmthe young idiot is a child. he has no idea what his thoughts or opinions are going to be two months from now. why would anyone give press or media coverage to a simpleton such as he.
Report Post »rawmilker
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 6:56pmwhy is the blaze giving this little dipwad the time of day? He‘s a kid who’s opinion means ****…..
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 7:45pmFrankly, being able to “think” “IS” not a strong point of contemporary ‘intellectuals.’
Going to “no principles” “IS” easier than having no understanding. It “IS” FAR easier to be of no principle (and no ‘character’) than to work to uphold a position of honor.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:21pmIt’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 the Dept. of Education!
Report Post »fair2light
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:46pmHes a kid and kids will rebell. You will grow up and see the false hopes of liberalism. Or you will hold fast to you rebellion and go to your grave bitter and angry. Children!
Report Post »One1
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:59amDid liberals give this kid any air time when he professed his conservatism? I doubt it.
Report Post »Oh Please
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:05amI agree with college bringing out the compassion, however, if this kid is so smart, he could be playing all of us for some camera time. Lets hope college doesn‘t ruin the kid’s life.
Report Post »100 Million Patriots Standing
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:22am@Ray…
Your most accurate comment bears repeating for emphasis.
“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 the Dept. of Education”
I went to my son’t graduation at Ohio State, the stadium had postings everywhere; scarlet and gray (and green). I saw thousands of newly indoctrinated grads proceed out of the stadium after graduation to begin their new life among us. (and this was repeated at countless graduations across the country).
This in addition to the non-ceasing illegal immigrants and the growing muslim culture, Conservative citizenry is being diluted out of existance. Unless this Progressive strategy is reversed America will indeed fall as a free nation with our children as instruments of its demise.
Report Post »kadster01
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:46amExactly. Why are we wasting so much time – and with such a crazy long article – on this kid who still doesn’t know anything about real life? I had never ever heard of him before now.
Report Post »MacGuyver
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:53pmWhy is the educational machinery in this country is so anti-truth perpetuating a dark age in the minds of our youth? If you have not seen Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZAAh_6OXg.
Lil Limbaugh, there is no such thing as a true atheist. A true atheist denies or disbelieves the existence of a God or Gods. If you are an intellectually honest person and you have no proof of the existence of God or Gods, then you are Agnostic. You cannot deny or prove that there is no God unless you have searched all the galaxies in the Universe with all known and unknown search techniques. If you then disbelieve that there is no God, that makes no sense or is eminently illogical. The act of believing negatively requires faith in the unknown and therefore becomes your own dogma or religion which is emotional and irrational.
By the way, we did not come from apes. DNA studies have shown that species do not jump from their species domain to another, not in nature or the laboratory. There is more coming that will prove that “The Origin of Species” is not what Darwin proposed.
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:59pmLooks just like a liberal douche bag now. LOL
Report Post »BillyBeefcake
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 3:50pmThis is what happens when the teachings of the liberal commie democrats are taught to children. They become atheist that eventually become Anti-American.
This kid is disgusting.
Report Post »RSHLUVER
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:36pmI agree with The Jerk. Who cares about this kid? Let him be the darling of the Huffington Post.
Report Post »Endstatism
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:55amWait until he gets in the workplace or starts a business. Then reality will start to set in unless he has turned into a leftist ideologue.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:34amNah…..He’ll probably go to work for the gubbament or as a community organizer.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:51amMSNBC is already calling him up.
Report Post »NashEast
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:58amCheck out his tweet – he is finishing his first screenplay. Has already sold his soul to Hollywood. On to path to ‘greatness’ as a lock-step Liberal loser bashing Conservatism.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:55amglad to see the kid can finally think for himself, college will be more fun and enlightening now
Report Post »Steelheadisadouche
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:52amha. hahahahahaha. Sure, let him put off paying taxes a while longer and he can just mess around with lib chicks. That’s what indoctrination should be like, yet you wankers can even screw that up with your drivel.
Report Post »woodyl1011fl
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 2:15pmCognitive thinking is NOT promoted in our universities and colleges. One must group think in Marxist, Hegelian, Nietzsche and Darwinian terms or you are labeled stupid. Pavlov would be bursting with pride his principles work. There is no academic freedom or freedom of conscience in the American government controlled so called education system; as objective truth is denied and rejected therefore only naturalistic Darwinian relativism remains. Marxism rules in academia !! This always leads to pervasive immorality, social instability, governmental corruption, violence then cultural societal, economic implosion follows and that always spawns the evil of totalitarianism birthing smooth talking men and women who embrace evil who deceive others with their own irrational self- deceptions.of secular utopian fantasies, The twenty first century may repeat the horrors of the twentieth century. The present historical parallels are disturbing. The worldview philosophies that made mass murder, enslavement, political terrorism are making progress in our nation are being taught at all levels in many ways in our society with every means available. .
Report Post »sigh
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:53amWhen he was conservative his opinions were meaningless to the left… now that he’s a liberal his opinions are meaningless to the right… congratulations kid, welcome to pointless.
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:04amIt’s just a phase.
Report Post »another pucker
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:52amI always felt a little uneasy with this kid! I say good riddance because if he hadn’t come out he would have become a rino just polluting the republican party even more, like McCain, Grahm, Snow, and all the others. Instead we need a good “Smooth Move” Tea Party purging of all the yuck blocking the flow of Freedom our Forefathers intended for the U.S.of A!
HAPPY INDEPENDANCE DAY!!!!!
XOXOXO
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:00pmActually, when he does “the loop” and finds his bearings once again (hopefully sooner than later), he‘ll know why he’s a conservative FROM EXPERIENCE rather than theory.
Right now, he‘s being courted by so many liberal media suitors that he’s puffed up to (almost) his former size. Just like before, he‘s a little political pawn and he’s too young and naive to realized the power of the forces around him —although at the wise old age of seventeen he would adamantly deny this.
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 2:00pmAaaah… the wonders of the German philosophers (Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer). Nothing like studying the poison of existentialism without having learned what went before it. Again, none of this would have been possible without Descartes making the existence of God, and all that is, reliant upon the thought of man.
Also, this is the reason Plato did not accept students under the age of 30 at The Academy. The idealism of life has yet to be stripped by reality.
QUIATA… not all make it back. Atheism is the Ebola virus to the human soul, and the philosophers he’s studying is exactly that.
Report Post »CptStubbing
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 2:09pmI don’t understand how a person can claim to have been inspired by Kant and still come away an athiest? Kantian philosophy rejects athiesm. Either he didn‘t read it or he doesn’t understand it.
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 2:32pmCPTSTUBBING… Indeed, but don’t forget the others: Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer.
Report Post »Your Name Here
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 2:57pm“Smooth move” as in “Exlax cleans like a brown tornado.”
Report Post »nolongeradem
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:46amThanks to the Progressive education system we have another defector! If you have children in public schools, get them out, quickly! Teach them yourself. I must say, as a college level instructor, my best students are home schooled.
Report Post »We’ve either got to get the progressiveness out of the public school system or leave the public school system behind for the intolerant mind stealers. And, since college educations breed more democrats than republicans, you can’t expect teachers to change their stripes. 100 years of progressive education will be difficult to get rid of.
nolongeradem
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:53amIn addition, perhaps he should pick up Alexis de tocqueville.
Report Post »urrybr
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:42amHe studied philosophy????????? What type? Nihlism, Social, Religious, etc???? Unfortunately he is still just a “snot-nosed” kid, without an ounce of wisdom. Book learning never gives wisdom . . . that’s one of the problems with D.C.
Report Post »jackal
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:19amWhat was I at 17? conservative dabbling in the left when it entertained me,now 30years later all conservative.It’s called growing up learning and experiencing and if he thinks that is complete or we then thier is some niavate going on.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:32pmI HATED politics at that age. I went through the normal cycle of passionate, then logical. I was more conservative and never believed in distributing wealth. My first vote went to Carter, I am ashamed to say, but every vote after that was Republican. It wasn’t until 2000, when the Presidency was contested in court, did I get into and started paying attention to politics. Ever since then, I have been listening to talk radio, avoiding the MSM, and learning things from the Internet.
Report Post »SumoMoses
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:40amConservative-leaning kid = Child wonder, Wise beyond his years, Should make his parents proud
Liberal-leaning kid = Too young to know what he’s talking about, Going through “a phase”, Being irrational
Are you beginning to see the hypocrisy here?
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:10pmConservative-leaning kid (age13) = learning from his parents ===> becomes Liberal-leaning kid (age17) = rebellion. Highly predictable.
Report Post »In either case, the kid is being USED. By the way, not everyone fell for the 13-year-old Wunderkind in the first place.
Thewayiseeit
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:39amHey Johnathan?
Report Post »Please do show examples of “Right Wing Violence” that even starts to compare to
This, http://archive.org/stream/AlabamaDemocracyUnitedDemocracyAndPartyHarmonyVs.HeflinRepublicanism/Democratic#page/n0/mode/1up or perhaps this, http://archive.org/stream/RacistDemocraticPartyLogo/racistdemocraticlogo#page/n0/mode/1up Or even justify your opinion against this, http://www.humanevents.com/2006/07/05/racist-democrats-vs-colorblind-republicans/ To be stupid is one thing, to be TAUGHT to be stupid another, Might I present some timely data on who runs the school system? http://archive.org/stream/MakingSocialistsOutOfCollegeStudentsAStoryOfProfessorsAndOther/ISS#page/n0/mode/1up So lets say just for arguments sake, you were Conservative when in Grade school but as you went through school more & more, you wanted to be accepted by your peers who were seeking approval of the teachers because they had already taught you to distrust & dismiss your parents, Where do you think that would lead you? Remember the Dewey decimal system in the school library? That is not all he did for schools with his well refined Dialectic Materialism. Grow up Johnathan, The Conservatives will grieve your loss of path.
Were your values worth no more than their value to you when sold?
Average_JoeMN
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:35amThe kid’s a punk.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:33amThis kid is a complete phony and always has been. He snookered CPAC, Gingrich, Romney and others. What a great con-job by a thirteen year old with a good head who took advantage of the Tea Party movement to advance his own stature. What we have here is a kid eager to become a politician in later life who seized the moment. Had the moment come from The Left instead of from The Right he would have just as convincingly gone the opposite way. He is a devious little bastard and leftist who is overly ambitious and transparent. He’ll make a perfect Democrat Senator some day!
Report Post »Misty Williams
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:56amReally? You don‘t think that he’s just going through what pretty much every kid goes through around the 17-24 year mark? That whole questioning who they are, what they believe, questioning parents values, upbringing with a touch of rebellion thrown in? Perhaps a little giving in to peer pressure–being that “conservative kid” is probably about as popular and date-getting as “that chess club kid”. And what teen to early 20ish LIKES to be put “in a box”? I’m 38 and I still reject the cookie cutter. I think he is growing, and learning. He’s THINKING. I pray for his sake and his parents that he returns to faith and clear thought soon.
What does it say about we conservative types if we need some 13 y-o or 17 y-o kid to tout our beliefs and act as a rallying point? What does it say about we conservative types if we lash out at the kid when he is going through the normal process of questioning his world? And insulting his mother? Really a bit “playground,” dontcha think? I don’t mean to be nasty to anyone at all, but, folks, it might be time to grow up a little. With the POTUS seat up for grabs in November, we have to get serious or go home.
Report Post »jackal
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:26amThat’s exactly my thought Misty.It’s like going to church and being instructed in your religion and somewhere down the road you stray for a few years but things happen and you come back.The foundation for coservatism and religion have been laid and life in time may instruct him to come back.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:46am@MISTY WILLIAMS AND JACKAL: I hear your points and agree slightly. But get real! What normal kid, one without a personal ambition for political power and celebrity recognition writes a political book as he did? And second, being a hard-core conservative at thirteen years of age like that is, well, to be kind, just a bit “strange.” No, no, this is “blind ambition” pure and simple by a very calculating man-child. And one more thing, we do not need, nor should we ever encourage young people to be spokespersons. Personally, I think this kid’s book and subsequent celebrity because of it was a well planned scam to embarrass CPAC and those dopey politicians who embraced him!
Report Post »Misty Williams
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 12:32pm@RightPolitically
Report Post »Have you ever seen the little gals that are trotted out in children’s beauty pageants? I feel mighty sorry for them.
I really don’t think there is anything more sinister or devious going on here than a kid who was petted & cooed over who has decided to sow some ideological oats. Who REALLY thought the 13 y-o wrote that book? I never read it but I have my doubts. He was a parrot, a good one. But to attribute some sinister plot to the child to make the CPAC and Tea Party look like a bunch of dopes? Frankly I think *that* could make folks look a bit dopey.
When my oldest daughter was still in public school, before I married her dad, and we had his children join mine in home schooling, she was known as one of the most popular, well written/read kids in school. I took one look at her writing, & wanted to cry. At 10th grade, she had no concept of sentence structure, grammar, her spelling was a nightmare, and she did a lot of repeating the same ideas with different phrasings to fill up a paper. No real subject matter. No facts, no logic, no conclusions. But she had been petted & cooed over as brilliant because she repeated what she was told in class, & from the materials she was told to read.
Johnathan was a great mocking bird. It was cute to see a kid at 13 parroting conservative ideals. But I don’t think the fact that he has hung up his Gadsden Flag in the closet and is questioning his world is really some sort of sinister plot. But, to each his own.
MicahJank
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 1:03pm@Misty
Report Post »Spot on!
PaxInVeritate
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 3:45pmExcellent points MISTY.
Report Post »nappy
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:31amoh please.. he‘s a punk kid and the reason he changed his tune is because he’s still in school. His liberal indoctrination is being pounded into his pea brain daily.
Report Post »Daniel
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:19amSeems more like a Libertarian now to me. We all should be Libertarians once, in the coming presidential election. LIVE FREE! GARY JOHNSON 2012! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2UjLX3N2mo&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDSUoIVMze8&feature=relmfu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izCXJZAIXMI&feature=player_embedded
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:31amHe just repeated what he had heard on the radio , his parents are not Christian or conservative, this is what he said on an interview on msnbc yesterday. He never was what others that he was, he was a parrot . Let him go his own way.
Report Post »Cemetery
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:14amHe’s just a dumb smartass kid who cares? They never know who or what they are growing up anyways.
Report Post »Need to be FREE
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:14amWas he sent to a reeducation camp? Oh my bad it is call public school now.
Report Post »facebooker
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:10amHe discovered POT.
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:06amProbably a hot little lefty girl got to him and being immature and all he got lite headed. He is no lil Rush: Rush is not emotionally unstable. This article should be in a gossip section of the NY Times not here. The story is way to long and BORING to even read more than a few sentences.
Report Post »SumoMoses
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:19amYou’re right, Rush isn’t emotionally unstable.
He’s just a morbidly obese pill addict.
Report Post »HeidiTreadwater
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:50amSumomoses, we are so glad you weighed in. Your comment puts it all back in perspective, and provides a perfect example of leftist principles. Avoid facts, spew hate and attack with falsehoods. I very much hope Jonathan Krohn reads this and realizes the mentality with which he is now aligned.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:01amHe’s really screwed up.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:08amThen he found the right place.
Report Post »iampraying4u
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:22amHe said he turned his back on his Christian faith well its all down hill now
Report Post »AllLost
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:00amOk already, we get it. The kid was a kid when he said some stuff, and now he is a kid that says some stuff.
It is sad, but it is what our indocrtinational system does to kids. Thank God we no longer have a parent at home helping to give guidance to our children when they come home with public school propaganda. It that would happen how could the progressives ever win?.
Report Post »nostromo
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:59amWhy did anyone take this kid seriously when he was a kid and why does anyone take him seriously now? Nothing you say (or do outside of violent crime) should count before you are 30. It seems it takes a lot of growing up to do nowadays before character is fully formed.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:38amJust take a look at our President!
Report Post »All American American
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:56amBlah blah blah writing a screenplay blah blah blah need hollyweirdo support blah blah blah.
Who cares?
Report Post »lottcha
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:30amWell said, who cares.
Report Post »KusoJiJi
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:53amhe’ll be married to some dude in a couple of years.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:52amMaybe gay kid is more fitting?
Report Post »fdonnino
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:52amYou could have been a contender.
Report Post »Once day you will understand your mistake.
daxbrady
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:49amYawn….. enough about a kid who hasn’t found himself.. Looks like an attention seeker from day one to me.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:20amThat’s it…..He’s ruled by ego, not principals. Probably always was.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:27amYAWN
He conned the system into his schitck/got some $/going to NYU and supports Rainbows.
YAWN
NEXT
Good thing he can’t VOTE in 2012
ROFL
OMG 2012
Report Post »Oilbama
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 2:17pm“And I feel that the problem is that if you label yourself you get locked into an ideology with all the trappings.”…………………Okay, tell this to the b l a c k panthers or congressional b l a c k caucus.
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