She died on American Airlines Flight 77 on 9/11.
She's pass on, but never forgotten.
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.....
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.
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
I'd restrict the membership to those who identified themselves with the modern conservative movement (or defined it as they led). Of that, my first Hall of Fame class would be:
William F. Buckley
Ronald Reagan
Rush Limbaugh
Newt Gingrich
Barry Goldwater
Yes, I know Goldwater sort of left the reservation in his senile years and Buckley is doing the same but they were the trailblazers who brought many with them into the movement. Gingrich led the GOP takeover of the House in 1994 which still survives to this day. Limbaugh is the daily evangelist of the movement, winning the converts that can form a majority. Reagan needs no explanation.
Several other names can be added later but I don't think you HAVE a legitimate conservative movement without these five.
She died on American Airlines Flight 77 on 9/11.
She's pass on, but never forgotten.
Not much for an argument here, but i agree with every single name mentioned, including the obvious additions of Rush and Newt -- hey even if you don't agree with EVERY thing newt ever did, he still deserves inclusion into the Hall Of Fame.
In the Music Wing...
Toby Keith -- Angry American
Merle Haggard -- Okie From Muskogie
Ted Nuggent
Anita Bryant -- blackballed from public life, for speaking against gays.
And no one seems to have mentioned the most important woman of the 20th century, and the person who single-handedly torpedoed the Equal Rights Amendment -- Phyllis Schaffly.