Conservative prodigy smacks Jeb Bush for anti-Reaganism
via HotAir.com:
I wish he asked real questions that could reveal whether the kid's just acting or whether his statements are out of his deep, heartfelt beliefs, rather than just teasing him about being a young person interested in politics.
Just as a dumb actor can talk about "quantum" something or another or "Heisenberg compensators" (supposedly alluding to Heisenberg uncertainty principle), and just as a pretender can mouth off about "time-dependent perturbation theory" or "interference" or "exchange force" or whatever (these are just words—they don't mean anything unless you can connect them to contexts and physical situations that the words are supposed to represent), it's possible for a gifted child actor to act like a TV pundit.
Now, was he just acting or not?
If he wasn't acting ... I wonder if he shouldn't take some premonition from the first part of the quote, "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
If you have never sympathized with a liberal cause, you won't understand liberals, and you wouldn't even be able to imagine how the liberals' arguments could make sense (either at intellectual or emotional level) to anybody at all. And that's such a huge handicap—after all, understanding your enemy is half the battle.
On the other hand, people change over time (which is the whole ... essence of the quote). If you start out as conservative too early, too young—when you couldn't have possibly understood and internalized the core values—then there's a danger that you will grow up to be a liberal, if nothing else, as a rebellion against (what you perceive to be) your own foolish past. I certainly did, in many ways.