ROFL... Jonathan Krohn: CPAC's boy wonder swings left

[hlthe2b]

Jonathan Krohn took the political world by storm at 2009’s 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, he’s not a conservative anymore.

“I think it was naive,” Krohn now says 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.”

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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.

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[bluestateguy]

1. Everybody be nice, OK

1) He's just a kid and 2) it is hard coming to grips with the fact that what you believed (or your parents told you to believe, idk) is wrong.

[hlthe2b]

5. Why would anyone NOT be nice? The kid has matured. A little schadenfreude towards the RW, though..

Now, that's to be fully understandable.

[mrs_p]

2. Sign of maturity,

I'd say.

[hifiguy]

3. Bright, curious kids usually evolve when

they start selecting their own reading material.

[JHB]

4. Welcome to life outside the bubble, Kid. Good to have you in the neighborhood.

If you'd stayed in the same place as you got older, it'd have been a sad thing.

[freshwest]

6. +1 and a bright future to you, Johnathan.

[malaise]

7. Bwaaaaah hahahahaha

[thelordofhell]

8. Now you're a man

[alp227]

9. So far, Free Republic doesn't know yet.

They are too busy jacking off to photos of Megyn Kelly

or warning people about the grand plan of that Kenyan Muslim Marxist in the White House to seize guns

or sobbing over the supreme court decision on obama care

or starting a keyboard riot over a school somewhere that did not respect the flag enough

[Kingofalldems]

10. Cave dwellers and freepers not liking this one

[Orangepeel]

11. Good for him.

[Enrique]

12. first John Roberts

now Jonathan Krohn. Someone do a "Hitler finds out..." video.

[meow2u3]

13. Translation: I used to be conservative, but then I grew up

A perfect frame to brand conservatives as childish, ignorant, and arrogant.

[WillyT]

14. HUGE K & R !!!

[47of74]

15. HA HA Conservatives!