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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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.
The modern GOP barely even gives lip service to any of that and genuinely backs none of it.
“conservative” ...the word no longer has much meaning the way we see it played out.
If so, the left has won.
That’s awesome.
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.
AMERICAN! is just right for me....some others...AINO might fit...???
Dick G @ Planet WTF!
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“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.
“Ideological purists are, and will remain, on the fringe of reality.
+1
Reagan didn’t like them. He was pragmatic.
He is definitely good at it. He said yesterday that the deal he announced with Kasich, that they didn’t have one.
I used to know what a conservative was, back in the 20th century when they still existed.
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.
precisely
You are very wrong. Jeb Bush knew exactly what a conservative was - himself! He said so.
oh good.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what a conservative is.
They are taking a stand on a political death-trap.
+1
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.
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.
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