Posted on 04/29/2016 5:02:58 AM PDT by The_Victor
Donald Trump scored a major endorsement from a very beloved Indiana hero, Hoosier basketball coach Bobby Knight. The endorsement serves to give an important boost to help Trump win the state in his march to the nomination. But on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Thursday when asked to respond to critics that suggest Trump was not a real conservative Knight admitted, “You know, I'm not sure what a conservative is.”
“I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn't sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be,” the coach explained. “I don't know. Maybe he's a guy that -- you know, he just wants to be real quiet. I don't know what a conservative is,” he continued.
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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?
I can tell you what is NOT a conservative. Ted Cruz.
Donald Trump believes in enriching and empowering himself by appealing to resentful and angry people with grade-school educations and monosyllabic vocabularies.
You are not a conservative.
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.
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.”
“The man has a PhD in lying.”
I thought he just had an MS in BS.
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.
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.
Excellent post.
So what?
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
...and Mitt is a “severe” conservative.
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
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.
Well that settles it then. Kasick will win IN. HaHaHa
Thanks for being such a great example of the ‘politics of personal destruction’.
Didn’t work BTW.
You just made yourself look very small.
A real world conservatism must also advise how to fight the battles here at home.
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