Posted on 11/01/2007 6:11:11 PM PDT by ConservativeStLouisGuy
Thomas is #85, Scalia was #62, I believe. Buckley was somewhere around #59. Coulter was right above Thomas at #84.
The Telegraph’s message board on this article is getting pretty interesting.
No kidding. Maybe they should have re-named it the “Most Influential People to the Right of Stalin” list?
Oh, and i love the man who attacked the CONSERVATIVE BASE of the party, gillespie, somehow finds his way on this list.
Gates? In who’s army is he a conservative?
Bolton? I really don’t know if he’s a conservative. I love him in the role given to him by the admininstration, but his role wasn’t to speak out on cnservative policy.
gigot from the WSJ? The same WSJ that shills for amnesty?
Condi? the woman who wants a Palestinian state, is arguably pro choice and pro affirmative action? And that’s only what we know about hr, her role isn’t to be a conservative spokesperson either.
Huckabee pro-big government, amnesty and weak on the war? Oh, and he plays a mean guitar apparently...
Romney, Gov of MASS? Home of kennedy and kerry who has flip flopped the last coupld of years into a conservative? LOL
John McCain? Who stabbed us in the back on free speech, amnesty, judges, terrorit rights, tax cuts and so forth?
When did Luntz become a conservative?
Cheney I’m okay with.
Not sure about the order but Beck and Laura okay...
Despite his amnesty fig leaf last year, I guess pence is okay overall...
While I don’t know for certain, I suspect Roberts is a conservative. But the fact we don’t know and they don’t know speaks volumes to me. We know he approaches the Constitution right thus far, that’s about it. But how he ranks over scalia and Thomas? Eh...I suppose since he has some sway over kennedy it could be argued he’s more worthy of a position topping those two by virture of 5-4 decisions in the right way....but even if we grant that, Thomas and Scalia are nowhere near where they should be.
Rudy? LOL. Dick Morris?
They did leave Schwarzenegger off the list, altogether.
1. RUDY GIULIANI
2. GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS
3. MATT DRUDGE
4. NEWT GINGRICH
5. RUSH LIMBAUGH
6. DICK CHENEY
7. ROBERT GATES
8. JOHN ROBERTS
9. JOHN MCCAIN
10. MITT ROMNEY
11. MIKE HUCKABEE
12. CONDOLEEZZA RICE
13. JOHN BOLTON
14. PAUL GIGOT
15. LAURA INGRAHAM
16. HALEY BARBOUR
17. FRANK LUNTZ
18. GLENN BECK
19. MIKE PENCE
20. ED GILLESPIE
21. GEORGE W. BUSH
22.CHRISTOPHER DEMUTH
23. ROGER AILES
24. GROVER NORQUIST
25. R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR
26. JAMES DOBSON
27. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
28. DICK MORRIS
29. ALAN GREENSPAN
30. WAYNE LAPIERRE
31. MARK LEVIN
32. BILL SIMON
33. ANDREW SULLIVAN
34. DAVID HOROWITZ
35. TOM DELAY
36. MARY MATALIN
37. FREDERICK KAGAN
38. JACK ABRAMOFF
39. DREW CAREY
40. DAVID FRUM
41. EDWIN FEULNER
42. KARL ROVE
43. TOM COBURN
44. SEAN HANNITY
45. RICK SANTORUM
46. ROBERT NOVAK
47. JOE LIEBERMAN
48. WILLIAM KRISTOL
49. WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
50. ALEX CASTELLANOS
51. CHARLES AND SAM WYLY
52. BRIT HUME
53. RICH LOWRY
54. FRED THOMPSON
55. JACK KEANE
56. GEORGE WILL
57. NORMAN PODHORETZ
58. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
59. LAURA BUSH
60. P J O’ROURKE
61. BOBBY JINDAL
62. JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA
63. MICHAEL SAVAGE
64. THOMAS SOWELL
65. RICHARD LAND
66. JAMES BAKER
67. DAVID BROOKS
68. IRWIN STELZER
69. ERICK ERIKSON
70. GARY BAUER
71. CHUCK NORRIS
72. MICHAEL RUBIN
73. JOHN O’SULLIVAN
74. DAVID WINSTON
75. MICHAEL CHERTOFF
76. TONY BLANKLEY
77. CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
78. BRENT SCOWCROFT
79. TONY CARBONETTI
80. PAT BUCHANAN
81. TONY PERKINS
82. BILL O’REILLY
83. PEGGY NOONAN
84. ANN COULTER
85. CLARENCE THOMAS
86. JEB BUSH
87. MICHAEL BARONE
88. TED OLSON
89. SENATOR LARRY CRAIG
90. REUEL MARC GERECHT
91. MARK SANFORD
92. COLONEL OLIVER NORTH
93. MICHELLE MALKIN
94. CLIFFORD MAY
95. HENRY KISSINGER
96. RON PAUL
97. CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
98. ERIK PRINCE
99. WILLIAM MCGURN
100. GENERAL PETER PACE
I went to the UK Tel. page and didn’t see the message board, do you have a link perhaps?
If not, it is sort of interesting how the Brits (or this Brit) ranked US political Conservatives (sic).
I mean Rudy? hmm....I wonder if that is the template that is being formed?
Pace made the list... as #100.
They put Ah-nold at #8... as the most influential LIBERAL. Yup, they got that one right.
Newt deserves to be in the top 20 somewhere. He is a bright mind and a great spokesman for the cause.
The message board is at the end of their 81-100 ranking page.
With Larry Craig ranked lower then Pete Pace?
That is crazy.
Good for a chuckle though.
YESSSSSSS ...
Ah, but they're british. All three "major" parties in England are run by liberals. The brits even think Clintonite Tony Blair is "Bush's best mate" solely because Blair supports the WOT (nevermind the fact that he's a leftist on everything else)
Western Europe has a very different idea of "conservatives" than we have in the U.S. The Hilderbeast would probably be too "right-wing" to get nominated by Jac Chirac's party.
Oh, now I get it.
This appears to be more a list of popular names in the UK, that are identified as American “conservatives”, as opposed to those that conservatives deem influential.
I’m on Newt’s email list, but I wouldn’t call him influential, his organization did studies and polls and released the results and there was barely a ripple, I didn’t see a thread on FR about those results.
He is bright, it’s a question of his influence for me at least.
The most influential US liberals:
1. BILL CLINTON
2. AL GORE
3. MARK PENN
4. HILLARY CLINTON
5. NANCY PELOSI
6. BARACK OBAMA
7. MICHAEL MOORE
8. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Governor of California
Leaving him off the conservative list was a difficult decision but Schwarzenegger’s defiance of Republican orthodoxy and move towards California liberalism leaves him better placed to influence the liberal sphere. Even unstinting Schwarzenegger support of a Rudy Giuliani general election campaign in California would be unlikely to deliver the state to Republicans. His marriage to Maria Shriver took him into the Kennedy clan.
As an Austrian-born immigrant, the former body builder and action movie star is barred from the presidency, though he has not ruled out a run for the US Senate in 2010 if Barbara Boxer retires. Schwarzenegger’s actions to combat global warming have prompted an alliance with Tony Blair and is likely lead to his working more closely with Al Gore. For any Democrat entering the Oval Office, one of the first calls will be to Schwarzenegger.
9. OPRAH WINFREY
10. EVAN BAYH
Thank you for posting the entire entry. I just got the number of the truck. :)
Reposted from the other thread:
“Yes, let’s start making a list of influential British leaders. Let’s start with #1, Borat.”
The truck? (I don’t get it, lol)
Ok, if you say so...
Well, what I meant was I just posted his ranking (getting the number of the truck that hit me). You did the work and posted the entire entry.
Feeble attempt at humor for a fact I find decidedly un-funny. :)
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