The most admired people on the Right

Hot Air ^ | 12/22/2014 | Jazz Shaw

[HomerBohn]

Our friend John Hawkins at Right Wing News has completed his annual, end of the year survey of authors on the Right leaning side of the political divide to determine which public figures, groups and elected officials are viewed the most (or least) favorably among the commentariat.

While some of the names may seem like familiar, no-brainers, there are some interesting surprises in the mix, and a few of them serve as an excellent rebuttal to media talking points about who or what generic conservatives like. For full disclosure, the writers at Hot Air were invited to participate in this survey and I know at least a couple of us did so.

I encourage you to check out the entire list and see how your own preferences match up, but the top of the list may be a bit of an eye opener for liberals and media talkers (but I repeat myself) who tend to portray the Right as some sort of monolithic, homophobic, racist block. There was a three way tie for first place.

1) Scott Walker (63)

1) Clarence Thomas (63)

1) Thomas Sowell (63)

Two African Americans and a guy who’s not exactly known for being a culture warrior topped the list. The rest of the top ten include Mia Love (4th), the Boss Emeritus (tied for 5th) and Bobby Jindal at 10th. It’s a pretty diverse group considering that we’re allegedly the party of boring old, straight, white guys.

Who made the bottom of the list? I won’t spoil the entire thing for you, but the last two spots are taken by a father – daughter team. (Was that too much of a hint?) In addition to the Speaker of the House, no less than three anticipated presidential candidates found their way to the bottom of the barrel.

9) Peter King (35)

8) Chris Christie (36)

7) Jeb Bush (37)

Among the other categories I would note from the survey is the list of groups which were rated. There was a huge swing in the responses from top to bottom, rated in terms of how many respondents had a favorable or very favorable response balanced against the unfavorables. At the top was the NRA with a plus 59 tally. Coming in last was the NRSC at negative 23.

Check out the rest of them and adjust the rankings as you see fit. If there is enough interest maybe I’ll see if our resident poll master wants to build one for our readers to compare against the results from this survey.

[HomerBohn]

Where’s Sarah Palin?

Ted Cruz and Michelle Malkin are tops.

I think they polled a lot of RINO’s above.

Sucking swamp water on the very bottom you'll find a father-daughter team: the McCains!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

As the future Mrs. Thomas Sowell, I heartily agree! :)

[Tenacious 1]

Totally bs list. Get tnat $hit out of here.

[Hostage]

These are persons ‘on the right’ most admired but ‘by whom’ is not stated explicitly.

Among currently serving politicians ‘The Most Admired People On the Right BY PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT’ would be hands down Ted Cruz followed by Mike Lee, Jeff Sessions, Scott Walker, Louie Gohmert, etc.

[BlueStateRightist]

Didn’t know Megyn Kelly is really on the RIGHT. I’m never sure if she’s just playing a part.

[irish guard]

Good to see Walker there. He's quietly reforming a mess here in Wisconsin. Not particularly a dynamic speaker, Walker does his speaking with actions. In the meantime, lots of people here will chastize him for not being uber conservative on immigration and I even heard someone here suggest he's not against abortion, which is pure bs.

I like him, but don't think he's going to be charming enough for the media or Republicans to nominate in 2016

[PoplarBluffian]

At this point Walker is #1 on my list of Prez prospects. I like that he stays calm in the chaos & just gets things done. He may not be charismatic but he seems to be a level-headed achiever......

[Timber Rattler]

This list is a bunch of subjective crap. Where’s Sarah Palin on it????

[shove_it]

Any supposed list of ‘admired people on the right’ that doesn’t have Sarah Palin on it is bogus and deserves a BARF ALERT.

[HomerBohn]

Don’t forget Trey Gowdy.

[central_va]

Has Walker made a stand on illegal immigration?

[ZULU]

I don’t buy this survey either. Too small a pool of people polled.

And neither Rice nor Bush II are conservatives.

[irish guard]

He's been intentionally vague. Wisconsin is a northern state and there aren't many Canadians trying to move here illegally. I am paraphrasing him and I'm sure won't do so properly for the hard liners here at the FreeRepublic. He's basically said we need to do something about the problem and need to find a way to deal with the people that are here already. I'm sure I'll get all sorts of flames for making it that simple, but the guy has bigger fish to fry up here.

He poked a stick into the union hornets nest and had to run for election three times in four years. He won by the same margin each time, has changed a lot of things in state government, reduced costs and taxes and seems to have us going in the right direction. So I don't really care what he thinks about immigration to be honest. He's done all the right things here in Wisconsin for me.

[central_va]

We’re being overrun by the third world. You’d better start caring.

[irish guard]

Well..perhaps...but for 8 years, Wisconsin was overrun by a third world leftist liberal and it has take us time to unwind that mess. You needed to see what Walker’s predecessor did to the state. So yea, I care about home first, then I’ll worry about immigrants.