Posted on 12/09/2015 5:59:22 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
When I first heard about this CJ Pearson kid and the conservative star he was becoming I remembered Jonathan Krohn, the conservative boy wonder who came before him, only to become a liberal ideologue a couple of short years later.
Now, it looks like Pearson is following in Krohn's footsteps by endorsing Bernie Sanders. Before that it was Ted Cruz, and before that it was Rand Paul. That tells you all you need to know about what type of authority on policy a child should be.
This isn't like flip flopping between Pepsi and Dr. Pepper, this is like changing ones mind from Pepsi to arsenic laced motor oil.
This is why kids shouldn't be propped up on the pedestal of politics. As Erick Erickson aptly points out not only are they too young to care as much as we adults, they're too young to truly understand their views.
It's not even that his principles have changed, he probably didn't have any to begin with. Teenagers want two things more than anything else: 1. Attention and 2. To be liked. In this case it looks like the former is driving the bus here. The kid faked being blocked by Obama on Twitter, as if that was a story. It only really became one after he was caught.
Why would he do that other than to beg for attention?
It's good that he moved on to the next phase of his narcissism. He'll be much more at home with socialist liberals. It's all too appropriate that a child, with not enough life experience under his belt to drive a car much less vote, chose leftist group think over conservative principles. Hopefully he'll figure out how foolish and naive he has been when he becomes an adult that lives in the real world.
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Uuuuugh.... sheesh. Too good to be true. Okay, let’s just all agree, ignore anyone under 18, and maybe even 21.... or under 25....
How about 26? When they have to get their own health insurance....
Sort of a juvenile Arianna Huffington.
Hey, while in the 1st Grade, I voted for Adlai Stevenson over Ike, because Adlai had more hair.
We all made regrettable mistakes in our misspent youth....
We shouldn't be discussing the political opinions of kids and celebrities. Their brains haven't even solidified yet.
There we go.... you win the prize!
Bingo!!!
I was in second grade during the ‘88 election and I remember something from Scholastic showing Bush and Dukakis and all about the election. My parents asked me who I would pick. I picked Dukakis because his picture looked better...I have no doubt that was intentional.
The look of consternation on my parents told me immediately that we were a Bush family (at that point I had no concept of parties or ideology).
In any case, I empathize with your mistake ;-)
I remember when a bunch here put Rubio on a pedestal because he was a Latino that looked and talked very conservative.
They did the same with Carson and even started elevating Rand Paul for a while when he started talking conservative.
Most of us just enjoy when the rhetoric makes sense and offer kudos for each appropriate performance...
Well, we all do that but his youth and possibly his race caused many to elevate him a little higher than most. Things he said and did grabbed headlines. I would say that’s putting him on a pedestal.
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