AP: Limbaugh Is Most Influential Conservative
Sun, 11/29/2009 - 21:48
Anyone who listens to Rush on a daily basis and watches the day-to-day political events, already knows what CBS and the AP already knew up to this point, but were afraid to admit... That America considers Rush Limbaugh the most influential conservative voice in the country. Instead on a semi-regular basis, they would attack him for comments on a variety of pertinent topics in an attempt to "marginalize" Rush, while claiming he's an outsider. Funny... if he were that much of the outsider, why does he dominate weekend liberal pundit commentary at least a few times a month?
Apparently CBS News wanted to confirm their worst fears according to the article: "The random national telephone sample of 855 adults was conducted by CBS News from Nov. 6-8. The margin for error is plus or minus three percentage points."
Rush came in at 26% with Glenn Beck following up at 11%.
In addition, this CBS Poll covered which president should be most favored for addition to Mount Rushmore with the top pick coming in as JFK at 29% with Ronald Reagan coming in at 20%. As much as CBS likes to claim a random sample, they clearly stacked the poll sample with liberals.
Why do I say that? As tragic as the JFK Assassination was, it has become the cloud that obfuscates the poor presidential performance his administration had incurred up until that fateful day. The reason JFK was in Dallas that day to begin with was to shore up his sagging poll numbers in Texas during the run up into the '64 elections. Had that event not occurred, JFK would probably have ended up a one term president with bad economic numbers and a few Carter-like National Security "near misses".
As it stands, Kennedy faced off with Castro and had his lunch handed to him. Khrushchev made Kennedy look like an amateur and had to hand him a way out of the Missile Crisis.
Frankly, of any president other than the four that reside on Rushmore now, Ronald Reagan is the one and only new addition. An economic recovery that exploded prosperity in this country, a turn around in patriotic fervor that not only rebuilt and then some the military that Carter destroyed, but also with a commanding presence brought down a superpower.
So who is the better president for Rushmore? Hmm?
