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Poll: Limbaugh Is Most Influential Conservative
NEW YORK (AP) - By a wide margin, Americans consider Rush Limbaugh the nation's most influential conservative voice.
Those are the results of a poll conducted by "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair magazine and issued Sunday. The radio host was picked by 26 percent of those who responded, followed by Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck at 11 percent. Actual politicians - former Vice President Dick Cheney and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin - were the choice of 10 percent each.
Asked to choose from among seven presidents, Americans tapped John F. Kennedy as the one they'd like to see added to Mount Rushmore. Kennedy polled 29 percent, with Ronald Reagan second at 20 percent.
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Ron6756
Glenn Becks "A Christmas Sweater" TANKS at all theaters! As predicted.
SAME 4 OR 5 LIBERAL GOONS WITH MULTI-SCREEN NAMES---"HI".... HALF DOZEN MAGGOTS..!♥♥♥♥
ceebee
What? The most influential conservative is a drug addicted comedian? Good luck 2012 foxbots
spleen
Rush is more interested in Rush than anything else. As long as Conservatism so closely aligns itself with such an egotist, it is going to have a serious image problem as a philosophy of itself and nobody else.
Henri
I love it you guys are fighting over who is a better representative of the Republican party, Rush LImbaugh or Glenn Beck. Hilarious! This is one of the many reasons that Obama will be overwhelming re-elected in 2012.
Grey Rider
Bam, you're wrong, but your entitled to your opinion. The republicans are finding themselves again because of Rush, not the other way around. The individuals in congress who call themselves republicans are not the republican party. Rush is setting us on the path to re-taking it on the merits of it's values, not greed and corruption, and it will mean flushing the avarice out of the party.
BAM
Your wrong and not entitled to your opinion. Where was Rush from 2001-2008. Glenn has been out front sticking it to the man.
BAM
Glenn is way better than Rush. Rush has become stale and is basically a mouthpiece for the GOP. Glenn is a mouthpiece fro the people. Beck\Norris 2013
BAM
Glenn is way better than Rush. Rush has become stale and is basically a mouthpiece for the GOP. Glenn is a mouthpiece fro the people. Beck\Norris 2013
Nomnomnom
The voice of the second most pathetic era a party has ever endured (grats on first Dems). Leading any political party these days means your the best of the worst. ...You all can give yourselves a pat on the back knowing this fat turd isn't the face of the conservative movement.
Bill589
Rush pisses off all the right people.
CONSERVATIVE=LEMMING
Limbaugh is also most influential racist loudmouth. He would like to push things back to the "good old days" before the civil war.
Major Tom
.... Just as Democrats have been saying for years.... Thank you conservatives for validating our claims... and good luck with with your boss. He's a real winner! lol....lol....lol...lol...lol...lol..lol!
martmann
Rush would be great advisor to any president ,but there goes egos colliding as for rushmore Reagan would be the man his legacy grows he truley flexed our nations might and showed what a great Rebublic can do..
martmann
Rush is great, as a advisori feel he would be asset to any president but egos are hard to compete with Reagans legacy grows with every year he truley flexed the muscels of our great nation.. i would be extactic to see him on Rushmore
blacksmith
And Hulk Hogan is the most influential wrestler in the US- just in front of Stone Cold Steve Austin.
My good friends, what do YOU think it means when an entertainer is the most influential conservative leader in the US?
I'll just offer this- most thinking Americans believe that Rush is a kind of stand up comic. Subversive, angry, playing on listener's fears and prejudices to gain market share. He is extremely successful in this. But to see him as a political leader reveals more about the gullibility of certain Americans than it does about our actual politics.
johnnymarin
Then I proudly say "Ditto". I'm a college educated businessman. I have raised three children and paid about $1,000,000 in taxes over the years. I gladly follow the advice of Rush Limbaugh. You sir, are an ignorant ass.
glovesareoff
LOL! Now that's funny. Congrats! Sure your kids are enjoying their education at the university of walmart.
blacksmith
I guess, with your closing insult, you prove my point.
You were lucky to have lived in an age where American business was protected from competition- no Indias, no Chinas, heck, even women were mostly excluded from competition.
In that atmosphere, which has now evaporated, a person gullible enough to believe in an entetainer like Limbaugh was still able to thrive. Now, such gullibility would doom you. I'm not angry at you, and I strongly believe in your right- and Limbaugh's right- to believe what ever you want to, to say whatever you want to.
I also believe that Stone Cold and Hulk have the rght to entertain and grow wealthy on their efforts, and their fans to yell and stomp, happy in thier suspense as to who will win the rigged matches. The only difference is that Limbaugh's fans, such as yourself, are angry, filled with hatred, and politically active, even if they are mostly irrelevant as anything but the ugliest face of the failed
worship of greed and ignorance that has dominated and grown in America since Reagan.
sammer
Dems got control and Rush still steers the agenda. Be nice if he used some of that influence to keep his own party in line. Clinton - giant surplus / Bush - giant debt.
Tom in GA
Sammer, Hate burst your bubble, but there was never a surplus under Clinton. It was an accounting trick similar to what Enron did.
martmann
bush would of had giant surplus if he cut military 80% clinton expanded govt 50 m jobs and had osama twice let him go.... now define is-----monicagate ?
love
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observer
John Kennedy was a good popular president , but his constant adulterer life style behind the scenes should disqualify him , his true self is just as important as his public perception . If he would cheat on his wife , would he cheat on the nation.......... think about it ?????????????
airborne71
Yes to the everyday Conservative , BUT (Big But ) NOT to the GOP , thay wish he would go away as much as the Liberals do . The Republicans in Congress are worthless , thats why I left the party .