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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: simpson96
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.

41 posted on 04/29/2016 6:04:56 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: randita

The modern GOP barely even gives lip service to any of that and genuinely backs none of it.


42 posted on 04/29/2016 6:05:38 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: xzins

“conservative” ...the word no longer has much meaning the way we see it played out.

If so, the left has won.


43 posted on 04/29/2016 6:07:23 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: simpson96

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Brooks


44 posted on 04/29/2016 6:14:20 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Ken H

That’s awesome.


45 posted on 04/29/2016 6:15:18 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: The_Victor

You mean someone can lead a great life, be a winner, a good citizen, a productive member of society, looked up to and admired, not a thug, inspire others and NOT be hard-core rigid-ass Conservative? Maybe they can be Conservative-ish?

No. Way.


46 posted on 04/29/2016 6:17:23 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: gunnyg

AMERICAN! is just right for me....some others...AINO might fit...???

Dick G @ Planet WTF!
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47 posted on 04/29/2016 6:18:11 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: rrrod

“The Conservative Industry has almost ruined the conservative movement.”

Truer words were never spoken. It is that industry that has by its avarice opened a very wide door for Donald J. Trump.

Those are the people in DC going “ape$#!t” at the thought of DJT becoming POTUS. They benefit from a lefty in the White House because all the Average Joe conservatives at home donate more when a lib resides there.


48 posted on 04/29/2016 6:22:11 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Thumper1960

“Ideological purists are, and will remain, on the fringe of reality.

+1

Reagan didn’t like them. He was pragmatic.


49 posted on 04/29/2016 6:23:50 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: BlackAdderess

He is definitely good at it. He said yesterday that the deal he announced with Kasich, that they didn’t have one.


50 posted on 04/29/2016 6:25:16 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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I used to know what a conservative was, back in the 20th century when they still existed.


51 posted on 04/29/2016 6:26:43 AM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Nifster
I have seen social conservatives be willing to give government all sorts of power in order to get their desired results.

Which scares the bejesus out of the voting public. And, a big deficit on the conservative side, a big loss for real conservatism is that some of our "great conservative" supreme court justices were far more authoritarian than they were conservative.

52 posted on 04/29/2016 6:26:46 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

precisely


53 posted on 04/29/2016 6:27:58 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: silverleaf
That puts Bobby’s political acumen right up there with jeb bush

You are very wrong. Jeb Bush knew exactly what a conservative was - himself! He said so.

54 posted on 04/29/2016 6:28:59 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: The_Victor

oh good.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what a conservative is.


55 posted on 04/29/2016 6:32:26 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Nifster
I frequently attempt to put the question to Trump's opponents about what he stands for that violates conservative principles. While mostly the response is inarticulate, when it is articulate, it is along the lines of Trump would allow raped 13-year olds access to an abortion. Those so-called conservatives draw their line in the sand THERE!.

They are taking a stand on a political death-trap.

56 posted on 04/29/2016 6:35:03 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: randita

+1


57 posted on 04/29/2016 6:39:31 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: 1_Rain_Drop
I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what a conservative is.

Hopefully a "true conservative" will show up here and explain it to us. One place to look is Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles, which one might think is sort of gospel on the subject. The problem is that Kirk holds that conservatism must be prudent, pragmatic and open to reasonable change. He is anti-doctrine which offends those who wish to preach doctrine as opposed to take reasonable and well considered measures to address real issues.

58 posted on 04/29/2016 6:42:07 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: The_Victor
'I Don't Know What a Conservative Is'

Neither do half of those running for election -- and claiming to be conservatives.

'Conservative' has become a litmus word they think they must invoke, sort of like 'Reagan'. The trouble is, just invoking the word does not make then 'conservative'.


59 posted on 04/29/2016 6:45:24 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: AndyJackson

Agreed, those social conservatives get us into more trouble because they are the opposite end of social liberals.

They want to use big government to enforce their moral world view.

That was never the intent of our founding fathers.

Conservatives should want the return of the constitutional limits of the federal government (protect us from our enemies foreign and domestic, court system) and return all other powers to the states.


60 posted on 04/29/2016 6:45:33 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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