Poll: Limbaugh is most influential conservative

[Kadie]

Poll: Limbaugh is most influential conservative

Sunday, November 29, 2009


(11-29) 16:18 PST 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.

With all the talk on the news about whether Americans should have the choice of a government-run health insurance plan in any health care reform, only 26 percent of those who responded said they felt confident explaining the "public option" to someone who didn't know about it.

Half of Americans chose laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as a ceremony in which they'd most like to participate. That swamped the other choices: lighting the Olympic torch, tossing the coin to open a Super Bowl, starting the race at the Indianapolis 500, ringing the opening bell at the stock exchange and throwing out the first pitch at the World Series.



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[Swamp Rat]

1. SUCKERS!!!

:D

[thenooch]

16. I'm no PS pro....

But SwampRat...check out the fark.com

You need some help.

[Swamp Rat]

18. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[davidpdx]

17. Damn, those ears are big enough he might be able to fly with them

The yellow teeth are a nice touch.

[ZombieHorde]

2. Sounds about right. nt

[UTUSN]

3. K&R #2 for, and yet, if he had the CYSTS to "run" for political office, he would LOSE!1 n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Good. Now his overly-fat head will explode and we'll be done with his crap.

He's too much of a coward to ever run for office, because he knows he'd get beaten like a rented mule.

[brewens]

6. My theory about how he lost his hearing.

When his drug addiction caused him to lose all the weight he also lost all the fat in his head. This created a vacuum and his eardrums imploded!

[MadMaddie]

5. They will have buyers remorse it's inevitable!!

Now that he has such a high profile he can't slip off and indulge in his past times like he wants. He will screw up and sex will be his downfall...

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. The thought of that is enough to make a jackal retch.

OxyPig having sex?

Oh dear, I need to scrub by brain right away.

[phasma ex machina]

15. Was it really necessary to bring up OxyPig mating rituals? Now my brain also needs scrubbed. nt.

[MadMaddie]

25. I should have given a "warning, warning Will Rogers"!!

[StarfarerBill]

8. There's no accounting for taste.

Though with this selection, it's a Simpson's Paradox: damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

[benld74]

9. Limpballs - Most influential bag of viseral hatred EVER

[rhett o rick]

10. IMO he is not a conservative. Dwight Eisenhower and Barry Goldwater were conservatives.

As was my father. Limbaugh is a worthless piece of trash.

[Enthusiast]

20. A true conservative would be

against foreign entanglements.

[BrklynLiberal]

11. How pathetic is THAT!!???

[certainot]

12. no one better represents the principles and morals of the modern GOP

the party of lincoln became the party of limbaugh a while ago.

and as point man for the 1000 radio stations laundering lobbyist talking points and pounding them into the earholes of tens of millions of Americans no single person is more responsible for getting the GOP to the edge of the cliff it's on now- unfortunately they dragged the rest of the country with them.

[lpbk2713]

13. Sorry O'Louffa, you're yesterday's news.

:rofl:

[Prophet 451]

14. Reagan comes second

Considering teh death and destruction that monster caused and that he set in motion, that may be the most depressing thing I've read this month.

[Enthusiast]

21. That 20% must have forgotten

the S&L crisis, the Lebanon bombing, Iran Contra and the exploding deficit. Hopefully when the time comes historians can object to Reagan's likeness on Mount Rushmore on those grounds. Of course Republicans never let a little reality get in their way.

[SpiralHawk]

19. Republicons do luv them their draft-dodging drug abusers

What a rank pack of skanky hooey their pretend 'family values' are...

[Enthusiast]

22. Yeah, I don't think he even

claims to be "born again" does he? Even the dummies that listen to him wouldn't believe that one.

[Are_grits_groceries]

23. That's kinda like being the most used toilet paper, no? nt

[JoeyT]

24. Or the most abused form of codeine.

[deutsey]

26. I thought he's "just an entertainer"...if so, that poll is like saying Bozo the Clown

is the most "influential conservative".