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CPAC Looks To 14-Year Old For Conservative Leadership

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Jonathan Krohn has some heavy ideas for these Republican parts, and he’s even written a book on them, Defining Conservatism. He told CNN reporters today that he considers himself a Conservative Realist, which is someone who bases their ideas in reality, not hyperbole. Which is a word that most kids his age are just learning the meaning of. Meet Jon Krohn, the 14-year old hope for the Conservative Party.





You know who Krohn reminds us of? That 21-year old superdelegate Jason Rae from the 2008 elections. And that guy was a good 7 years older that Krohn. And while it’s easy to make fun of a kid barely passed bar-mitzvah age wearing a suit and talking about the stimulus package and unemployment, he may be exactly what the Republican party needs…a shot of fresh blood. If only there could be someone in between the ages of puberty and granddad age to be the face of the party…we’re thinking Meghan McCain?

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  • TfT

    He spoke at last year’s CPAC as well; kind of a snarky report on a brilliant and very well spoken teen. Megan doesn’t hold a candle to this kid. Oh, and by the way there are plenty of folks in between that are being viewed as leaders for the party. But they are taking Ann Coulter’s advice, keep their names out of the public so the media won’t be able to do their typical search and destroy mission on them.

  • bondwooley

    This kid and the rest of CPAC should be banished to Canada so that the rest of us don’t have to move there!

    The last straw: http://bit.ly/ahQTbl

    (satire)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    If Krohn is indeed a realist he might have a grasp on reality. That would be an improvement in leadership as to CPAC, a group with a demonstrated lack of any familiarity with reality.

  • libra blue

    Jonathan looks and sounds more competent than Obama, but I guess that is not that difficult.

  • The Real Royal King

    Once he starts reading the great books of Western Literature and begins working on his degrees, I am sure we will see a refreshing change in him. The great value of educations is that it opens minds.

  • same2u

    Hey “Boo Hoo”,

    Do you have a realm of competence?

  • timzank

    TRRK::::: “The great value of education in the states today is that it brainwashes you.”

    there FIFY.

  • The Real Royal King

    Tim Z. Ank, you are one of far too many who despise learning because the learned tend to adopt very different policy positions than you. I don’t understand why that doesn’t tell you something. Fear? Denial? Ego?

  • felixw

    I know nothing about this boy. But I am certain about one thing: if he is being called a conservative leader, the media will start the smear campaign immediately.

  • TinaFromTampa

    This is a joke, right?
    You guys should at least give credit to the “Onion” when you post something like this.
    What?
    The conservatives are serious with this?
    At least he’s better educated than their last Vice Presidential candidate.
    Poor Ben Ferguson.
    I guess he’s already out of favor.

  • marcus.lewis

    Looks more competent than Obama? Cause the kid is white?

  • ImNotBlue

    The Real Royal King says:
    February 21, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    There are people who are very learned… and people who are very smart.

    People who are learned like to tell you. People who are smart like to show you.

    I’ll take “smart” over “learned” any day.

  • timzank

    TRRK…It tells me I’m right.

  • The Real Royal King

    I’ll take “smart” over “learned” any day.

    Which means you end up with neither. I’m sure you prefer that.

  • The Real Royal King

    felixw says:
    February 21, 2010 at 3:37 pm

    I know nothing about this boy. But I am certain about one thing: if he is being called a conservative leader, the media will start the smear campaign immediately.

    I seriously doubt that. The respectable media generally treats young people, particularly young people who are articulate, very well. Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton were mocked, slandered and savaged only by El Rotundo. The Bush girls, despite some rather bad, public behavior on their part, were largely left alone. You are no doubt whining about the children of the Drop Out Governor of Alaska, conveniently disregarding the demonstrable fact that the criticism is directed at her and not her children. The are hardly responsible for being transported from town-to-town like some 1930′s “B” band, being trotted out onto the stage and being forced to perform. That is your complaint, not the bogus whine you have articulated.

    Generally, the media acts very well with reference to children.

  • ImNotBlue

    The Real Royal King says:
    February 22, 2010 at 8:08 am

    Which means you end up with neither. I’m sure you prefer that.

    And on what planet does that conclusion make any kind of sense?

    The Real Royal King says:
    February 22, 2010 at 9:51 am

    Chelsea Clinton were mocked…

    By David Schuster on MSNBC…

    The Bush girls, despite some rather bad, public behavior on their part, were largely left alone.

    That’s a lie.

    You are no doubt whining about the children of the Governor Palin, conveniently disregarding the demonstrable fact that the criticism is directed at her and not her children.

    Unless you remember the whole David Letterman incident… but try not to do that, because when Royal gets busy making stuff up, it’s tough to get him to consider the facts.

    Generally, the media acts very well with reference to children.

    Or so RRK likes to pretend.

  • The Real Royal King

    True, the Travis County District Attorney didn’t leave the Bush girls alone, pursuing and attaining alcohol convictions against both. However, the media was extraordinarily gentle with them. You can’t establish otherwise, however loud you scream.

    As for the Letterman episode, I have to ask: “But-for” the Drop Out Governor of Alaska using her children as stage props, would Letterman have ever made a check about Chrystal, Ash or Cessna? No. To do so would have been irrelevant. No one would get the joke, be it a funny one or a poor one (as this joke was).

    You certainly are prickly and defensive.

  • ImNotBlue

    The Real Royal King says:
    February 22, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    Yeah, your right… this never happened. There also aren’t these “jokes”, and there isn’t this website.

    And it sure is a good thing that Keith Olbermann never went on a rant about them, asking goofy and insulting questions, with little to no research, and only rumors as evidence.

    As for Letterman… perhaps you’re right about that too. I mean, just because “using them as props” consists of her bringing her kids to big events to sit in the crown, and holding her new born (as opposed to leaving them in Alaska, and not spending time with the baby… which I guess would be better), perhaps she is to blame. After all, Letterman went after Obama for talking about his daughters first in his victory speech, right? “We’re getting a dog,” wasn’t making his kids props… no, that was just funny! But wanting to spend time with your family while on the road, man that’s terrible.

    Yeah… I guess I am a bit prickly and defensive… your hypocrisy and lying does that.

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