The 20 most Influential Conservatives?

Via Jill Stanek:

On November 3 London's Telegraph published "The most influential US conservatives."

And topping the list of 100?

Rudy Giuliani.
That's right. Crazy.

Here's their top 20:
1. Rudy Giuliani
2. General David Petraeus
3. Matt Drudge
4. Newt Gingrich
5. Rush Limbaugh
6. Dick Cheney
7. Robert Gates (Defense Secretary)
8. John Roberts
9. John McCain
10. Mitt Romney
11. Mike Huckabee
12. Condoleezza Rice
13. John Bolton
14. Paul Gigot (Wall Street Journal editorial page editor)
15. Laura Ingraham
16. Haley Barbour
17. Frank Luntz (pollster and strategist)
18. Glenn Beck
19. Mike Pence
20. Ed Gillespie

What do you think of the list? Do you see anyone missing? Anyone there who shouldn't be? Who would be your pick for most influential conservative? Jill plans on naming hers tommorrow. I'll be contemplating this list for a long while.

Here's the rest of the Telegraph's list.

And I might as well list who they consider our top 20 most influential liberals:

1. Bill Clinton
2. Al Gore
3. Mark Penn (Hillary's chief advisor)
4. Hillary Clinton
5. Nancy Pelosi
6. Barack Obama
7. Michael Moore
8. Arnold Schwarzenegger
9. Oprah Winfrey
10. Evan Bayh
11. John Podesta (President, Centre for American Progress)
12. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (founder, Daily Kos)
13. Rahm Emanuel
14. Jim Webb
15. George Soros
16. Arianna Huffington
17. Donna Brazile1
8. Richard Holbrooke (Hillary advisor)
19. Elizabeth Edwards
20. Joan Blades and Wes Boyd (founders of MoveOn.org)

Rudy Guiliani at the top of the conservative list? LOL! Very interesting! What's your opinion?
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Comments

  1. Marie11/6/07, 10:07 PM

    Rudy Giuliani is a conservative???? The country IS in trouble.

    Gosh. Someone needs to do a rethink, methinks lol.

    Peace:)

    Marie

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  2. Unknown11/7/07, 4:48 AM

    Remember that this is a list from England - so it reflects their perceptions/opinions (misguided and incorrect as it may be) of conservatives and liberals in this country.

    I bet this kind of list would indeed be different in some places were it from a poll in the US.

    Rudy G is neither conservative nor, at the moment, terribly influential.

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  3. Marie11/7/07, 10:17 PM

    To be honest I am sick of the political race in the U.S and I am not even American!

    I dont know how they can suffer through what seems to 2 solid years of electioneering!!! I go spare over 3 months here! We go to the polls in a few weeks...*sigh* then the pain is over..ah mercy!

    Peace to you:)

    Marie

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