Skip to comments.
CPAC's boy wonder swings left
Politico ^
| July 2, 2012
| Patrick Gavin
Posted on 07/02/2012 9:34:11 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-27 next last
To: Free ThinkerNY
I’d be checking for a brain tumor.
2
posted on
07/02/2012 9:36:20 AM PDT
by
Reagan69
(I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I suspect he will eventually be a poster boy for the famous Churchill quote about hearts, brains, and age. The kid still hasn’t started a family, bought a house, gotten a consequential job, completed an education, or begun paying taxes in a real way.
3
posted on
07/02/2012 9:38:56 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Teenage rebellion. When his own kids to it to him he’ll be a conservative again.
To: Reagan69
Once this nimrod starts paying property taxes, he should see the wisdom of conservatism.
To: Free ThinkerNY
"The speech was something that a 13-year-old does. You havent formed all your opinions."
And of course at 17, those opinions are all well formed. Yeah, right. BTW, whose bright idea was it in the GOP to have a 13 year old giving a speech at a CPAC convention anyways? Pretty dumb if you ask me.
To: Reagan69
Id be checking for a brain tumor. Subfrontal - probably a meningioma
as him if he's lost his sense of smell too
To: Free ThinkerNY
“its not fun and it gets boring”
There you go, folks, the political mindset of a teenager. Hey if it’s not fun, who cares about right or wrong, values or anarchy?
But let’s lionize a 17 year old, way to go Politico.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Sounds like a weak-minded kid without parental guidance, who is easily influenced by whoever he is exposed to. First “Georgia talk radio” and later Jon Leibowitz and Colbert. Pathetic.
9
posted on
07/02/2012 9:44:12 AM PDT
by
montag813
To: Reagan69
His favorite TV shows? The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
He was poisoned
I recommend making him sit through all seven seasons of Penn and Teller’s BULL$H!T. I know it is a last resort, but it could wake him the heck up.
10
posted on
07/02/2012 9:44:51 AM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Free ThinkerNY
Well, he’s smarter than Roberts. He figured out he was a liberal 40 years sooner.
11
posted on
07/02/2012 9:49:12 AM PDT
by
throwback
(The object of opening the mind, is as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
To: Reagan69
Id be checking for a brain tumor. That is a ridiculous comment. Brain tumors do not cause people to become liberals. I am restraining myself from saying what I really think. Maybe the first post to an article could be a bit more thought out. It really messes up a perfectly good discussion about an issue that might be somewhat thought provoking.
12
posted on
07/02/2012 9:52:20 AM PDT
by
webheart
(King of the Run-On Sentence)
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Free ThinkerNY
Well, you know that old saying about being liberal when you’re young... my nieces are presently liberals, but the older one is beginning to come around again.
14
posted on
07/02/2012 9:58:55 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(FYBO/FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: Free ThinkerNY
But a quick rundown of his current political stances suggests a serious pendulum swing away from the right. I'd be checking his family tree for a relationship to Mitt Romney.
To: Reagan69
more likely high-scrool faculty preparing him to apply to Liberal colleges
To: Free ThinkerNY
First item was gay “marriage.” Perhaps he`s been convinced he “qualifies.”
In any case, the words of a 13-year-old, no matter how bright he or she happens to be, should be taken as just that.. a bunch of words. Because their “opinions” can change upon the sight of the next shiny piece of bling, teenlets should be patted on the head, smiled upon, and thanked for playing.
17
posted on
07/02/2012 10:25:31 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This is why a young man is not a fit person to attend lectures on political science, because he is not versed in the practical business of life from which politics draws its premises and subject-matter. Besides, he tends to follow his feelings, with the result that he will make no headway and derive no benefit from his course, since the object of it is not knowledge but action.
It makes no difference whether he is young in age or youthful in character; the defect is due not to lack of years, but to living and pursuing one's various aims under sway of the feelings; for to people like this, knowledge becomes as unprofitable as it is for those without self-control.
- Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
18
posted on
07/02/2012 11:02:42 AM PDT
by
LearsFool
("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
To: Free ThinkerNY
And of course Patrick Gavin of Politico was TOO busy tracking down Jonathan Krohn, instead of searching for all those young women, Obama zombies (Obama stash, and the don't need to pay rent, etc. etc.) in 2008.
A simple question put to them “Are you better off 4 years later” would do. If the ‘reporter’ is brave enough, “What did you do with your Obama stash’.
19
posted on
07/02/2012 11:35:25 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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.You are evolving, Johnathan, and I have disturbing news for you.
Seventeen is not the zenith of sober adult judgement, either.
Winston Churchill is credited with saying it, and he may be somewhat closer reality.
If you do not embrace socialism when you are 17, you have no heart.
If you still embrace socialism at 35, you have no brain.
True as a general statement, although it can be demonstrated that some really old people never enjoy a totally mature human brain. Frances Fox Piven comes to mind.
20
posted on
07/02/2012 11:39:48 AM PDT
by
publius911
(Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-27 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson