Posted on 08/04/2006 3:06:23 PM PDT by pissant
As we all know, spending time here on FR, we recognize that there are various opinions about what makes a great conservative or what it means to be a true conservative. But like in Baseball, one does not get to the hall of fame unless enough of the sportsfans and writers think that person deserving after performing great deeds in his career. So here is the place to decide who gets to be in the Conservative Icon Hall of Fame.
I shall kick it off with my unimpeachable list (so don't try impeaching it...lol).
Cheers and happy friday to all.
St. Augustine
George Washington
James Madison
Ben Franklin
Edmund Burke
Adam Smith
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Winston Churchill
Maggie Thatcher
Milton Friedman
CS Lewis
Jesse Helms
Thomas Sowell
Ronald Reagan
Gen. George Patton.
Great list.......happy friday....I'd add William F. Buckley Jr.....
Don't know much about his politics, but certainly needs to be in the Military Hall of fame.
I debated putting WFB in, but he's pissed me off so much lately I couldn't do it. LOL
Me either but I am sure it was not lilly livered, hand wringing liberal.
That is a fact. LOL
haha...yes, I know...the Iraq war thing and all...but 99% of his stuff is so intellectually superior to any liberal...well, kind of the father of modern conservative thought....so you would have to include him.. Just put in a footnote......lol......
Samuel Johnson.
You didn't put Rush Limbaugh on there? Give me a break.
Batman.
You slipped my nominee in there toward the end--Jesse Helms. Good move.
Alexander Solzhenityn
Tocqueville
Fredrich Hayek, Fredric Bastiat, Thomas Jefferson, Joseph McCarthy (he was right), Robert Taft, Ayn Rand, William Jenner, AuH2O, Aristotle, Paul Johnson, J.R.R. Tolkkien.
I'd also include
Barry Goldwater,
Dick Cheney
&
Donald Rumsfeld
I would take Abraham Lincoln off of that list, he was not a conservative. He did more to establish the power of big government then any other President, except FDR.
Oh, and Phil Gramm
Jim Robinson
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