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The New Conservative Hero

March 9, 2010 11:40 AM

Bob Schieffer spoke with Jonathan Krohn, the 15 year-old wunderkind about his new book, "Defining Conservatism". Plus; Unplugged gives a health care primer with Norm Ornstein and Keli Goff.

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by Solarrays247 March 9, 2010 11:41 PM EST
Ya gotta be kiddin' me! This rates right up there with the baby preachers!

Poor kid! He has no idea how much he doesn't know! Shame on his parents for using him!
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by billpl-2009 March 9, 2010 7:45 PM EST
first time some little teenage girl puts her hand in his front pocket


....we'll never hear from him again
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by robe59 March 9, 2010 7:19 PM EST
Karl Rove was a member of the Young Republicans when he was 13 years old, and wore a suit and tie. Here we go again. Maybe someone can get to this kid before it's too late!
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by taxchurches March 9, 2010 7:08 PM EST
It has got to say something about your maturity level and sophistication of thought, if your "hero" is a 15 year-old kid.
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by coopy67 March 9, 2010 7:04 PM EST
Hopefully this little imp will have enough rain in his life to learn a few things along the way. Until then, and until he's put in a few more miles, he hasn't earned the right to an opinion.
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by coopy67 March 9, 2010 6:55 PM EST
So the Hitler Youth program never really ended!
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by bobnjersey March 9, 2010 6:47 PM EST
policy analysis ... writing idealogical tomes ... acute understanding of politics at 11, 12, 13?

he's got something wrong with him ... and the long term doesn't look good ... for him or the ones he ends up being an authority over.
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by curse914 March 9, 2010 6:41 PM EST
I listen to the kid, he repeated talking points. There was no searing analysis of his adopted ideology.

Have you ever seen "Little Man of God" the documentary? It is about a child preacher, good stuff.

Aping an ideology is not indicative of intelligence or even an understanding of any given ideology.
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by March 9, 2010 5:30 PM EST
Nice to hear from such a smart young man. I would like for him to weigh in
on what to say to parents who have lost a child to fighting overseas in
the Mid East, what to do when a hospital sends you a bill for $114000
that your insurance did not cover, and how you would address a brilliant
set of lawmakers and get them to explain why it was necessary to borrow
and spend the social security/medicare trust fund, at the same time
borrowing trillions of dollars from what many would consider our country's foremost adversary, not only militarily but in almost all other
fronts. Among our shortcomings as a country would have to be our obsession with creating "kings" out of those who have never lived as a
servant.
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by earlenes March 9, 2010 5:25 PM EST
The libs are just jealous that the conservatives actually have intelligent people representing them!
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