Why would you ever be a republican? That’s the question I’m most often greeted with when I “come out” to friends as a conservative. It’s a pretty simple answer for most, “because I think it’s right” or some such thing. Pundits would have us believe that republicanism is either the cure-all for a world gone painfully awry or a belief held exclusively by greedy fat cats with summer houses on cape cod who drive BMW’s. Well, I don’t think that my beliefs are going to save the world, I’m only a 16-year-old kid, and I drive an inherited Volkswagen. So...