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Related: About this forumCPAC's boy wonder swings left
Jonathan Krohn took the political world by storm at 2009s Conservative Political Action Conference when, at just 13 years old, he delivered an impromptu rallying cry for conservatism that became a viral hit and had some pegging him as a future star of the Republican Party.
Now 17, Krohn who went on to write a book, Defining Conservatism, that was blurbed by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Bill Bennett still watches that speech from time to time, but it mostly makes him cringe because, well, hes not a conservative anymore.
I think it was naive, Krohn now says of the speech. Its a 13-year-old kid saying stuff that he had heard for a long time. I live in Georgia. Were inundated with conservative talk in Georgia. The speech was something that a 13-year-old does. You havent formed all your opinions. Youre really defeating yourself if you think you have all of your ideas in your head when you were 12 or 13. Its impossible. You havent done enough.
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CPAC's boy wonder swings left (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jul 2012
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(667 posts)1. Maybe he met a hot Liberal girl!! At 17 that
WILL change your perspective!
muntrv
(14,505 posts)2. He decided that teabagging is no fun.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)3. And IF he were old enough to vote, he says he'd 'probably vote for Obama'
Gay marriage? In favor. Obamacare? Its 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.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/former-conservative-child-star-jonathan-crohn-is-all-grown-up-and-liberal/
lordcommander
(215 posts)4. Maybe there is hope in our youth for the future of this country.
k&r
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)5. Lawrence O'Donnell just had him on The Last Word.
He did well - he'll be okay.