Posted on 11/12/2009 11:30:40 AM PST by Puzzleman
To regain its strength, an out-of-power party like the Republicans needs ideas to fuel its recovery and leaders to promote and deliver them. In this war of ideas, those committed to presenting a sensible, philosophically grounded conservative case to Americans play a special role. Because conservatives are distrustful of concentrated power, it is awkward to select just seven Washington power players, but here are my picks...
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DeMint,Palin are the 2 big ommissions
Most of them I know, the gentleman from the Heritage foundation I did not. Further research needed. Some of these (Krauthammer) are opinion leaders.
Maybe he didn’t include Sarah but he sure as heck didn’t include Mitt or Huck, either.
Newt is also absent.
Hey, I know, I know. Exactly. LOL
It couldn’t be more clear from him.
Take care...
This is not necessarily the most conservative, but conservative that have real power.
1. Rush Limbaugh
2. Glenn Beck
3. Sarah Palin
4. Mark Steyn
5. Andrew Breitbart
6. Charles Krauthammer
(A better list)
And Rove is the "Architect" for that minority.
Krauthammer isn’t an elected official
Typical list from the RINO (La Raza) Rove.
Charles Krauthammer is a major pro-abort. That removes him from my list—FWIW.
Complete crap of a post.
I would hardly call BOR a conservative. He is a blowhard and too wishy washy with no defined set of principles which is essential for a real conservative. Hannity is no mental giant but is a Reagan conservative with core values and is a lot more important to our movement than BOR. Most conservatives I know do not like BOR who is obsessed with appearing fair and was very late to the party as far as realizing the evil that Obama is. Hannity is our best shot at getting women open to listening and then eventually their belief system is strong enough where they can listen to Mark Levin and not get turned off. My wife is gradually moving to the right largely because she is ok with Hannity’s tone and listened to him. She would never listen to Levin or Savage, those are for advanced conservatives. I think Limbaugh is the best overall but his satire and bombast (which I love) takes some getting used to. Hannity is the most likeable and most likely conduit to bring someone over to our side and we have to convert the minds and hearts out there. We need to expand our numbers by shifting people’s thinking to the right and Hannity is the best there is for a first exposure before folks graduate to the more cerebral types. Hannity is telegenic and nice which is very important to women.
That’s an inside the Beltway list.
Is this the same Karl Rove who supported unrestricted immigration and amnesty for illegals?
If so, I wouldn’t be the least bit interested in what he has to say on the subject of conservatism.
I was joking, I like Sean but have trouble with the fact that he has a man crush on Newt to RINO. I turn his show off any time Newt is on, TV or radio.
To me, Cantor sounds like a dumb hick.
Hmmm... how about they sit down and read the U.S. Constitution for starters.
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