Jonathan Krohn

The alleged tenets of modern conservatism are great; they just need to be tempered with reality. That's where liberalism steps in.

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Once conservatism is seen as something of a religion it's not surprising that the various would-be saviors of the conservative movement seem more like preachers than politicians.

Jonathan Krohn, conservative wunderkind and theater geek, made a huge splash at CPAC (Arianna called him "the highlight" of the convention) and this could be only the beginning.

Conservative values are cutting taxes and individual liberties without government control. That is how Republicans have been acting for the past eight years.

The Republican Party has finally become a living metaphor of itself: a lost, little boy, who thinks he's a cowboy, and who really believes a society can be built upon an ideology of selfishness.

When given the choice between having Barack Obama reach across the aisle to work with the GOP or pursue the policies he advanced during his campaign, a significant majority of Americans want him to stick to his guns (56 percent to 39 percent). And 79 percent of the public wants Republicans to drop the partisanship and work with Obama. No wonder Obama seems to be driving Republicans over the edge, with Tom DeLay calling the president's address to Congress "insane," John Bolton cracking jokes about the nuclear annihilation of Chicago, and Bobby Jindal using his time in the spotlight to rave -- inaccurately -- about wasteful "volcano monitoring" programs. You know times are tough for Republicans when the highlight of CPAC is a two-minute speech delivered by a 13-year old.

The future of the conservative movement presented himself on Friday, and he was 13. Jonathan Krohn, the author of "Define Conservatism" and political...