Posted on 07/03/2012 7:44:46 AM PDT by edpc
Like so many teenagers, Jonathan Krohn says he cringes when he thinks of some of the deeply uncool things he said when he was 13. Unlike most teenagers, Krohn said those things on camera in a speech at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, making him a YouTube sensation. Now? Krohn tells Politico's Patrick Gavin he's not a conservative anymore. He likes gay marriage and Obamacare. He's going to New York University in the fall. He name drops German philosophers. But his old fans can't accept that he's changed. "Come on, I was thirteen," he told Politico. "I was thirteen."
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Then again.....maybe not. Some never get there and truly 'grow up' despite what this ridiculous title states.
I was sure this was going to be about Roberts.
GMTA
LOL
Me too...
Now I understand, freedom is slavery, I love Big Brother!
Yahoo reaks of liberalism.
Seen the headline about the hot summer and this is what global warming looks like?
It’s called SUMMER.
When my son was 13 he was a conservative also. Now at 21, he’s more conservative than he was at 13. I win.
Exactly.....like we’ve never experienced a heatwave in summer before. I can remember longer, hotter stretches when I was a kid and everyone was talking about a new Ice Age.
His parents must be so proud.
NO, the kid is probably gay and has been indoctrinated into the gay lifestyle and has been convinced his perversion is normal
I go with your assumption.
More than likely the kid has been recruited by a local pedophile.
How to Win a Glowing Profile In Politico: Betray Right, 'Swing Left'
Some of you might remember Jonathan Krohn, the adorable conservative whiz kid who gave speeches and wrote books and wowed every conservative adult he came across at the tender age of thirteen. Oh, wait, if you’re stupid enough to only get your news from the corrupt Politico, you probably don’t. Because up until today, Politico didn't give Mr. Krohn a whole lot of attention. In fact, according to Politico's own search engine, here's the sum total of the attention Krohn's received since stepping onto the national stage in 2009 at CPAC: two videos and an "Arena" plug after he apparently (the link is dead) became useful to Politico after accusing the GOP of "whining." For years this young conservative phenom was out there and unless its search engine is faulty, Politico couldn't bring itself to cobble together 300 words about him. That all changed today, though. Today Krohn earned himself a big, splashy, loving, affectionate, thousand-word Politico profile. Why? Because Krohn's a left-winger now.
Maybe conservatives shouldn’t be so willing to chuck their panties on the stage of every political superstar to wander across the stage.
“Conservative Wonderboy” indeed.
He’s gay.
“Like so many teenagers, Jonathan Krohn says he cringes when he thinks of some of the deeply uncool things he said when he was 13.”
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Not just uncool, but “deeply uncool”. Puerile stupidity and propagandizing.
Conservativism is as cool as it gets.
I wouldn’t expect a vacuous 16 year old, or an ignorant “journalist” with the handle of “Elspeth”, to even remotely fathom that truism.
And now he is 15....
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/158073/thumbs/r-KROHN-large570.jpg
Jonathan Krohn, conservative prodigy and author of the book “Define Conservatism,” may not fit the typical Tea Party demographic — or some of their talking points.
“I don’t think Obama’s a socialist or evil, I just think he’s wrong and I disagree with him, he’s a leftist, that’s what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada,” Krohn told Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Channel at a Tea Party rally in Atlanta Thursday.
“My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views,” Krohn added.
“There are crazies on both ends,” the teenager said when asked to respond about how liberals were painting conservatives as extremists. But, if people started to pursue fact based political arguments, Krohn said, people would “stop being obnoxious and stop spreading all this filth — some people are socialists or fascists and stuff.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/16/jonathan-krohn-15-year-ol_n_540455.html
at 13, the brain washing hadn’t taken hold
He’s friggin’ 16!
I think he was, at first, a major target for the left. He was dangerous for them, so they put in a lot of effort into distorting his reality in school.
THEN, while doing so, some liberal homo trapped him in a back room somewhere.
I'll bet his parents are horrified. I also think they know what's happened to their boy, but the money is just too good to pass up, so they won't say anything about it.
It happens in the best of families. Parents must have prayed for patience at some time. Zeitgeist is a mother on the weak minded.
Ha ha—that was my guess too.
Wow. This dumb kid thinks that labels are just labels, that there is no reason to apply them for any reason other than simple ad hominem or to demonize someone as an extremist.
Now the kid is all starry eyed over crappy German philosophers. That alone will poison his life.
I feel bad for his father, his kid is obviously much, much smarter than his father, who he apparently despises as an extremist spreading “filth”. Huh. I wonder where THAT characterization came from...”filth”.
ping
“When my son was 13 he was a conservative also. Now at 21, he’s more conservative than he was at 13. I win.”
You win for sure - and the US wins!
I can say the same about my two sons, only mine are a bit older than your son.
Also, they still have the same friends from back then - and the vast majority of the friends are conservatives. YAY!
The lefties kept after him for half a decade. I wonder what vile mind games they played on this poor kid before he broke like POW in a Korean prison camp.
I had an exchange with him on twitter yesterday after I commented on a Page Six story with the headline something like: Conservative Kid now swings Left to which I replied, “Conservative kid swings toward where the camera is.” The kid Jonathan swoops in and tells me I am wrong. Then I speculated he must be an attention whore because what kid ends up at the CPAC convention. He denied this emphatically so I did a simple search that produced a 2009 NY Times article that described Jonathan as a “child actor” and his mother as a former actress who now teaches acting.” After confronting Jonathan with these facts he continued to deny that he was just a guy who loves the spotlight.
Yes, well here in the Pacific Northwest our temps are 10 degrees BELOW normal for this time of year. And, actually, since last winter we have had cooler than normal temps.
If it is "global" warming, then shouldn't it be, ya know, "global"? The AGW crowd always gloms onto anything that supports their "theory", and studiously ignore anything that might refute it, like facts.
“Come on, I was thirteen,”
And your excuse now is...?
LOL, so this kid “discovered” he’s a faggot?
Most kids get smarter as they get older, sounds like this one is getting dumber with age.
He’s been drinking the koolaid. Should have been drinking the TEA.
I’d wondered what happened to this kid when he just seemed to disappear after so much media exposure. Even Googled him a couple of times, but now it looks like he’s entering that “liberal at 20” phase that most kids go through.
Check back in when you’re 30, Jonathan, or maybe 40.
I'm glad he's decided that parroting an idea isn't the same thing as actually thinking about it. That's a rule that can be very uncomfortable for those for whom life is all about feelings.
I'll bet some of those conservative ideas resurface.
I wouldn't bet against it, you'd clean me out.
Congrats on your sons as well - you are right, the US wins!
He wants to be ‘cool’ and he will outgrow that.
On Twitter yesterday Jonathan described his father as "uncharismatic" and said of his mother, "Yes my mother was an actress so what? She supported my acting, so what? She didn't force it on me."
“We are very pleased.”
It makes a difference for sure - and is bound to make family get-togethers more pleasant when talk inevitably turns to politics :-)
I strongly suspect the number of people who change from liberal/progressive ideas to a Conservative belief system dwarfs the alternative. I know many that have made the switch over the years and very few (if any personally) that suddenly woke up one day with stupid lefty thoughts.
I hardly think a pre-teen/teen is really well grounded in political ideas and is subject to what is popular with his peers at the moment.
It was a mistake to make this youth a poster child and give him a platform before he had a chance to demonstrate his alleged conservatives beliefs as an adult in the real world.
Scanning Krohn’s Twitter, it seems he’ making the rounds of the finest left wing nutcase talk shows: Hardball, Lawrence O’Donnell and others.
If he’s not gay, then he can probably score a date with Meghan McCain now.
“He’s gay.”
Very possibly, but that overlooks how this generation looks at “gay rights.” To them it’s the equivalent of civil rights for blacks in the 60’s. I’ve seen 2 of my own kids switch from conservative to liberal over ‘gay rights,’ because some of their friends are gay. You see, in their estimation, public policy should be based on anecdotal evidence and how people feel about it.
Did your kids learn about what the blacks went through in the south during the civil rights? I have friends since collage and we part ways over gay marriage.
I talk politics with my kids all the time and take them to church too. I point out liberal hypocrisies and the vile acts they commit against conservatives who speak out on their beliefs. If your kids are liberal, they may be only getting one side of a situation.
My kids’ dad actually worked with the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta in the 60s, so they are fully aware of what that part was all about. They grew up as Rush Babies, were taken to conservative and Republican functions throughout their childhood. They have a very good grounding in the principles this country was founded on.
We can just hope that the foundation they were given will come into play as they mature. THO ... sometimes as I peruse threads here, I don’t want to identify with some who call themselves ‘conservatives,’ either. Vile people on both ends of the political spectrum.
Today's youth have replaced reason for emotionalism. "Symbolism over substance", as Rush would call it. It's lost on me how anyone can think gay marriage is a civil rights issue..... I also think it's offensive when gays compare it to how blacks have struggled in this country. They just don't compare.
I'm trying to teach me kids the history of liberalism and some of their banner causes they've supported. Once you get past their "we care" mantra, you'll see the evil for what it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bqKh-TNZQns
Krohn is one of millions of young, brain-addled leftist twerps roaming around America today. He lacks critical thinking skills, and is simply one more spoiled brat who thinks he’s smarter than the wisdom of thousands of years of human experience. Bob
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