2010 Political Honor Roll and Hall of Fame

Not all of these people are strictly speaking conservative in every way but they are always worth listening to and they have made and make our political culture stronger.  I have generally excluded major world figures outside of the US and Commonwealth tradition as well as religious figures and sports figures.  So if you are wondering why John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Gandhi, Elvis, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mother Theresa and Jesus Christ are not on the list, that is why.

Active Politicians

• Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
• Scott Brown (R-MA)
• Tom Campbell
• Dick Cheney
• Newt Gingrich
• Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
• Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
• Mark Kirk (R-IL)
• Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
• Paul Ryan (R-WI)

Active Commentators

• William Kristol
• Fred Barnes
• Michael Barone 
• Bruce Bawer 
• Christopher Buckley
• Clive Crook 
• Ross Douthat
• Michael Gerson
• Charles Krauthammer
• Peggy Noonan
• P.J. O'Rourke
• Dennis Prager 
• John Stossel 
• George Will

Scholars and Judges

• Samuel Alito
• David Brinkley
• Samuel Huntington 
• Harvey S. Mansfield
• Edmund Phelps
• Richard Posner
• Antonio Scalia 
• Thomas Sowell
• James Q. Wilson

Hall of Fame
(Emeritus and In memoriam, and in no particular order)

• Ronald Reagan
• William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Margaret Thatcher
• Barry Goldwater
• John Locke
• F.A. Hayek
• George Orwell
• Aldous Huxley
• Edmund Burke
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Aristotle
• Thomas Paine
• Adam Smith
• Alexander Hamilton
• Milton Friedman
• Leo Strauss
• Alan Bloom
• George H.W. Bush
• Alan Dulles
• Harry Truman
• Abraham Lincoln
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Harry S. Truman
• Dean Acheson
• Averill Harriman
• Lloyd Bentsen