By Selwyn Duke

Long before Hillary Clinton became aWhitewater girl she was a Goldwater girl. She even read the 1964 Republican nominee’s book Conscience of a Conservative before becoming what critics would say is a conscienceless leftist. But while Rodham (her maiden name) had to content herself with being a school Young Republican, today politically precocious kids can get something else: 15 minutes of national conservative fame facilitated by fawning adults. And one commentator has a very definite opinion about this.

“The Right Needs To Stop Idolizing Wunderkinds,” says Bethany Mandel.

Writing at the Federalist, Mandel points to other “conservative” kids who underwent the Rodham-Clinton transformation — only, it happened after adults childishly hailed them as the next Ronald Reagan. 

One is C.J. Pearson. The 13-year-old black Georgia resident denounced Barack Obama earlier this year in a few videos, which went viral, and he became a conservative YouTube star. That was before he apparently lied about the White House blocking him on Twitter.

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