Posted on 11/17/2008 10:46:34 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Right Wing News emailed almost 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their "Favorite People On The Right." Representatives from the following 44 blogs responded...
All American Blogger, Atlas Shrugs, Axis of Right, Bad Example, Blonde Sagacity, Bookworm Room, (Matt) Bull Moose Strikes Back, (Laura) Bull Moose Strikes Back, The Captain's Journal, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Conservatism Today, Conservative Compendium, Copious Dissent, Argghhhh!, Cara Ellison, Girl On The Right, House of Eratosthenes, Paul Ibrahim.com, IMAO, Keith Burgess-Jackson, Conservative Grapevine, Jeremayakovka, Josh Schroeder, Lotus Blog, Libertarian Republican, Mean Ol' Meany , Midnight Blue, Moonbattery, mountaineer musings, Mount Virtus, Musings, My Aisling, Newsbeat1, (Shoebox) No Runny Eggs, The Nose On Your Face, Pirate's Cove, Pirates Man Your Women!, The Rougblog, Don Singleton, Take Our Country Back, Trying To Grok, Vox Popoli, WILLisms, Wolking's World
All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-12 unranked selections and were allowed to choose anybody on the right or generally perceived to be on the right that they liked: Republican, Conservative, Libertarian, politician, preacher, blogger, columnist, radio host, you name it!
Without further ado, here are the right-of-center bloggers' favorite people on the right with the number of votes beside of each selection in parentheses:
23) Michele Bachmann (4)
23) Glenn Beck (4)
23) Pat Buchanan (4)
23) Victor Davis Hanson (4)
23) Charles Krauthammer (4)
23) Dennis Prager (4)
23) John Roberts (4)
20) Dick Cheney (5)
20) Mark Levin (5)
20) Clarence Thomas (5)
19) Paul Ryan (6)
15) Tom Coburn (7)
15) Laura Ingraham (7)
15) Sean Hannity (7)
15) Mike Pence (7)
12) Jeff Flake (8)
12) Jonah Goldberg (8)
12) Antonin Scalia (8)
11) Jim DeMint (10)
9) Ann Coulter (11)
9) Thomas Sowell (11)
7) Michael Steele (12)
7) Michelle Malkin (12)
6) Mark Steyn (13)
5) Newt Gingrich (17)
4) Fred Thompson (18)
3) Bobby Jindal (22)
2) Rush Limbaugh (29)
1) Sarah Palin (33)
Ping.
No Inhofe? Shocked.
And people say that Sarah is irrelevant.
Well those that say she are are they themselves irrevelant.
of course she is relevant... in the way that Rush is relevant.
Those were supposed be Al Gore votes, but the bloggers got confused.
Rush and Sarah, FTW!
I sure hope we learned something about limiting primary candidates and rallying around the best conservative candidate much earlier the next time. Since Fred isn't likely to run again, I'd suggest that none of these should be permitted to run in 2012 at the top of the ticket; IMHO, if they couldn't beat McCain in a Republican primary, they aren't equipped to lead the necessary conservative effort for 2012.
A pretty good list.
I would put less emphasis on Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich, and Buchannan shouldn’t be on the list at all. I’d put Scalia and Thomas higher and would consider John Stossel and Duncan Hunter for the list.
Otherwise a pretty good list.
WTF!!!!
There must be some terrible mistake!!
Juan McWhacked was left out of the list!!
/sarc
It is interesting that this panel of key bloogers from the “non-inclusive”, “racist”, “sexist”, Conservative movement chose minorities or women for 6 of top 10 spots.
bump
Newt? Krauthammer??
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