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Trump Endorser Bobby Knight: 'I Don't Know What a Conservative Is'
NewsBusters ^ | April 28, 2016 | 11:55 PM EDT | Nicholas Fondacaro

Posted on 04/29/2016 5:02:58 AM PDT by The_Victor

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To: TalonDJ

Other than the fact you conveniently leave out the context of that exchange.

Why do Teds supporters feel compelled to lie as much as he does?


81 posted on 04/29/2016 4:03:44 PM PDT by digger48
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To: TalonDJ
his ultra leftist judge sister who was originally appointed by Reagan.
82 posted on 04/29/2016 4:06:22 PM PDT by digger48
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To: The_Victor

I can tell you what is NOT a conservative. Ted Cruz.


83 posted on 04/29/2016 4:09:09 PM PDT by upsdriver (I support Sarah Palin.)
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To: upsdriver
Ted Cruz believes in limited government, a strong national defense, low taxes, Judeo-Christian moral values and secure borders. That is what American conservatives have believed in for generations.

Donald Trump believes in enriching and empowering himself by appealing to resentful and angry people with grade-school educations and monosyllabic vocabularies.

84 posted on 04/29/2016 4:20:04 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

You are not a conservative.


85 posted on 04/29/2016 4:22:26 PM PDT by upsdriver (I support Sarah Palin.)
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To: upsdriver

Says the guy who probably wasn’t even alive when I worked for Ronald Reagan. Conservatism is about a learned love of liberty, not inchoate and unfocused anger at things you cannot comprehend and spent no time trying to understand. Just like The Don.


86 posted on 04/29/2016 4:27:20 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: xzins

Men “identify” as women, women “identify” as men, surely liberals can “identify” as conservatives. I think of a conservative as someone, like myself, who believes that we would be far better off had we actually followed the constitution as it was written rather than making up a fake version of it (living, breathing document, my arse) and that most of the amendments after the first ten have been proven to be mistakes. I know very few who actually agree with me on all or even most of that.

I have known so-called “conservatives” who have said to me such things as, “Now, I am one of the most conservative people you will ever meet but I think the government should give everyone FREE healthcare.”


87 posted on 04/29/2016 4:33:29 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: xzins

“The man has a PhD in lying.”

I thought he just had an MS in BS.


88 posted on 04/29/2016 4:37:45 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: The_Victor; henkster; hoosiermama; rrrod; xzins; BluesDuke; okie01; ml/nj; F15Eagle; unkus; ...
Donald Trump scored a major endorsement from a very beloved Indiana hero, Hoosier basketball coach Bobby Knight.

The sad truth is that Knight, for all his winning as a basketball coach, has a long history of noxious, boorish, childish behavior, not only public temper tantrums but assaults directed against players, opposing coaches, his own staffers, officials, fans, etc., etc. No wonder he fits in with Trump: the two have similar personality traits.

As for being "a very beloved Indiana hero," perhaps the writer of this posted article is unaware that there is another Big Ten school in the state of Indiana, named Purdue, whose fans and alums are primary voters as well, and whose fans and alums probably detest Knight as much as some IU followers might admire him.

Then, too, Knight hasn't been coaching at IU for 16 years, so younger voters wouldn't even know who he is. BTW, Knight left because the IU president had finally seen enough (about thirty years) of his ugly juvenile antics and decided to fire him.

And BTW, for those folks with military connections, it is no secret that Knight was in constant hot water with the West Point administrative brass for his similar antics when he coached at Army before he arrived at Indiana.

89 posted on 04/30/2016 10:58:05 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: The_Victor
Bobby Knight is just being crafty with his words here. By not defining himself as a partisan Republican, he is opening the door for lots of Democrats to cross over and vote for Trump. Those Democrats won't feel like they are being traitorous to their party because while Trump is running as a Republican, the establishment Republicans hate him and so these Democrats will feel like they are giving the Republican party a poke in the eye by voting Trump. And they aren't too crazy about the choices on their side of the fence.

Trump is now in general election mode. Going to need a lot of cross-over vote to win in November. So I expect a lot more of this type of campaigning.

90 posted on 04/30/2016 11:03:50 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Cruz and Kasich are in COLLUSION with the establishment GOP - cannot be trusted!)
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To: SamAdams76

Excellent post.


91 posted on 04/30/2016 11:06:38 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: justiceseeker93

So what?


92 posted on 04/30/2016 11:12:12 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: justiceseeker93
No wonder [Knight] fits in with Trump: the two have similar personality traits.

Yeah. Both are among the BEST IN THE WORLD at what they have chosen to do. (And both annoy the hell out of Liberals!)

ML/NJ

93 posted on 04/30/2016 11:16:00 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: xzins

...and Mitt is a “severe” conservative.


94 posted on 04/30/2016 11:17:56 AM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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To: Ken H; All
I remember Knight taking off his shoe and playfully pounding it on the table in a game with the Russians (a reference to a Kruschev incident from the Cold War).

Naturally, the usual suspects got bent out of shape, accusing him of creating an international incident. Knight was laughing the whole time when he did it.

I'm sure you are correct on that particular Knight incident being a joke.

But don't forget the serious incidents of boorish, inappropriate behavior that Knight exhibited during his long college basketball coaching career. These included some assaults, but of course his status as a celeb coach generally insulated him from criminal actions.

Though I'm not generally a fan of the Wikipedia web site, there is a list there of public behavioral problems that Knight has exhibited. A few of them may be overhyped, but overall you can't deny that Knight caused trouble for himself and the schools that he coached all too frequently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Knight

95 posted on 04/30/2016 11:20:16 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: The_Victor
As we learned yesterday, politics is situational not ideological.

It's also generational, in the sense that people react to specific situations at specific times.

People who voted for FDR in the 1930s might have lived to vote for RWR in the 1980s not because they became conservatives, but because they thought Reagan offered the right answers to the problems of the day, as they thought Roosevelt had fifty years before.

People who voted for Reagan in the 1980s may have stopped voting for Republicans because they didn't see Republicans who addressed their immediate concerns in a way that seemed plausible and helpful to them.

96 posted on 04/30/2016 11:24:46 AM PDT by x
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To: justiceseeker93

Well that settles it then. Kasick will win IN. HaHaHa


97 posted on 04/30/2016 11:35:24 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks for being such a great example of the ‘politics of personal destruction’.

Didn’t work BTW.

You just made yourself look very small.


98 posted on 04/30/2016 11:40:07 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (regurgitateTED)
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To: AndyJackson
Perhaps communism is dead in the real world, but it's very much alive in universities and political campaigns.

A real world conservatism must also advise how to fight the battles here at home.

99 posted on 04/30/2016 11:41:08 AM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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To: Antoninus
There certainly aren't many left on this site.

Are Zombies conservative?
100 posted on 04/30/2016 11:51:39 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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