Posted on 05/09/2008 10:58:45 AM PDT by LJayne
The 25 Most Influential People On The Right According To Conservative Bloggers
Right Wing News emailed more than 235 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be the most influential people on the right. Representatives from the following 54 blogs responded...
Aaron's CC, David All Group, All American Blogger, Atlas Shrugs, Baldilocks, The Baseball Crank, Betsy's Page, BitsBlog, BizzyBlog, Blonde Sagacity, Bookworm Room, Cassy Fiano, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Conservative Grapevine, Argghhhh!, Ed Driscoll, Election Projection, Cara Ellison, Eternity Road, Exurban League, Elocutio, Euphoric Reality, Fetching Jen, Five Feet Of Fury, Fraters Libertas, Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media, GayPatriot, Ghost of a Flea, (Doug) GraniteGrok, Guardian Watchblog, Hickpolitics, Freeman Hunt, Hick Politics, IMAO, Inside Larry's Head, Liberty Pundit, Mainstream Libertarian, Midnight Blue, Moonbattery, mountaineer musings, Newsbeat1, No Oil For Pacifists, Noisy Room, The Nose On Your Face (Potfry), The Nose On Your Face (Buckley), Pal2pal, Pirate's Cove, Professor Bainbridge, Don Singleton, Sister Toldjah, Solomonia, Stop The ACLU, Trying To Grok, Vox Popoli,
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 their selections with the number of votes beside of each selection:
#25: Mark Levin: 6 #21) Hugh Hewitt: 7 #21) George Will: 7 #21) John Roberts: 7 #21) Ronald Reagan: 7 #20) Victor David Hanson: 8 #19) Antonin Scalia: 9 #18) John McCain: 10 #14) Glenn Beck: 11 #14) George W. Bush: 11 #14) Glenn Reynolds: 11 #14) Matt Drudge: 11 #13) Bill Kristol: 12 #10) Charles Krauthammer: 13 #10) Thomas Sowell: 13 #10) Laura Ingraham: 13 #9) Karl Rove: 14 #8) Jonah Goldberg: 15 #7) Bill O'Reilly: 17 #5) Newt Gingrich: 21 #5) Ann Coulter: 21 #3) Mark Steyn: 23 #3) Sean Hannity: 23 #2) Michelle Malkin: 24 #1) Rush Limbaugh: 49
Nonsense. Savage is 100 times more conservative than Bush. He was the first to embrace the SwiftVets and have them on his program, and defend Sinclair, and without peer on the illegal alien issue. Don't believe the lies.
I’m the Empress of Massachusetts, and I can’t believe O’Reilly is even on the list.
...can I be your lady in waiting?
Good grief what an absurd list.
If they get to have dead people (Reagan) on the list..where’s Edmund Burke? William F Buckley? Barry Goldwater?
Bill Kristol? conservative? What a HOOT!
Edmund Burke
Barry Goldwater
William F Buckley
Clive S Lewis
J.R.R Tolkien.
Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
William Wilberforce
G.K. CHESTERTON
I’m not sure Ronald Reagan should be number 21, he’s in that big ranch in the sky but he’s still influential.
I think Tancredo should be on that list.
I made up my own poll and here are my winners.
You bet. :)
Hugh Hewitt? Bah.
Are you KIDDING?? Hannity reaches so many people that otherwise might not even have a political CLUE, with his TV show. And Hannity is a hard-working BULLDOG for the conservative cause. He puts off the conservative elitists, yes, but his huge heart and amazing stamina is pure gold for American Conservatism. His influence is huge.
see post 45
So who are these 54 bloggers? I can’t say I’ve heard of more than two of them. Granted I don’t follow blogs much but I would think that if they were really big players on the conservative blog scene I would have heard of more of them here on FR.
Seems to me that we probably take a random sample of 54 FReepers and get a better list
No, he doesn't. See my previous. He probably brings a lot of people to our side.
He's not an educated man and it shows. He doesn't seem to have many fans here either.
Because the most outspoken Freepers sometimes pass over the less educated conservatives and focus only on the degreed brilliant ones. They miss a HUGE point in life. It's NOT all about education. There is also Goodness and Heart and Faithfulness. Conservatives should have a HUGE tent for every IQ level. You will not FIND a more loyal conservative than Sean Hannity. He's kind, entertaining, and more hardworking than you or me.
LOL! Excellent! GMTA:)
I'd volunteer but then it wouldn't be a random sample anymore. Hehehe!
Not a good idea, relying on eggheads. Just ask Obama. And this guy.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Thanks for defending Sean Hannity’s name on this list. Sometimes he does get repetitious - but it is that tenacity that finally allowed the arrogance and hatred of Jeremiah Wright to break through into the nation’s consciousness. Sean has been pounding away at that theme for over a year now. Also, the Bill Ayers-Bernadette Dhorn connection to Obama is largely credited to Hannity for bringing it to the attention of the media. So, he may seem to be be annoying at times, but he does get reaction from many corners of the political world.
Well, you know what you’re missing then. I’ve heard of them all but then again, I’m not that educated.
“Because the most outspoken Freepers sometimes pass over the less educated conservatives and focus only on the degreed brilliant ones.”
Who are the degreed brilliant ones?
Are you being serious or funny? I can’t tell.
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