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http://guardianlv.com/2014/05/west-virginia-teen-wins-gop-primary/ From a lefty site, but good info on this young lady.

She can be pro-family, but she has never experienced being the head of a family, or the sole provider for a dependant child, or faced the hard decisions that parents must deal with every day when it comes to their income and their children’s education. She can be pro-marriage, but she is not married herself and so there is a whole range of experience that she does not have and which she will not be able to draw on when it comes to her legislative duties. Her fiscal policy can be fiscally conservative in theory, but her practice of balancing a budget and facing up to fiscal matters that adults handle every day is seriously lacking. Miss Blair is undoubtedly impressive for what she has accomplished so far in her short life and for what she can no doubt achieve in the future, but at this time one question lingers about her: should she be allowed to participate in running a state when she has little to no experience in running her own adult life? Read more at http://guardianlv.com/2014/05/west-virginia-teen-wins-gop-primary/#LAi0UIDJDXgLbZjU.99

I make no doubt that that is a lefty site, but those are actually pretty valid questions. But the answer, IMHO, is that sound theory beats “creativity” which amounts to nothing more than ignorance of the fact that most ideas have already been tried, and failed before - and will fail again if tried again.
Whenever I hear of “new” “progressive” ideas, I’m reminded of the story in the Readers’ Digest, which went something like this:

During WWII, I got the task of inventorying the battle damage on aircraft which had been damaged in battle over Europe. A Sergeant asked me what I was doing, and I told him. He asked, “What are you going to do that that information?” and I replied, “When we find out where airplanes get hit, we might put armor in those places.”
“Son,” he replied, airplanes get hit everywhere, and you’re only looking at the ones that got back. You find out where those planes got hit, you put your armor everywhere else.”
And that, I submit, is conservatism.