A blogger ran a 2009 blogger survey among conservative bloggers to find out who they consider the most influential conservative leaders. Note there are only three politicians currently in office who are on the list. See the list and commentary.

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-10 unranked selections and were allowed to choose anybody on the Right or generally perceived to be on the Right that they liked: Republican, conservative, Libertarian, politician, preacher, blogger, columnist, radio host, you name it! Here are their selections with the number of votes beside of each selection:

23) John Stossel 4 (Operates among the enemy)
23) Mitt Romney 4 (Imagine if Romney were handling this crisis)
23) Daniel Hannan 4 (British conservative member of the European Parliament)
23) John Bolton 4 (One of our nation's best in and out of office)
16) Fred Thompson 5 (Sensible, warm, inviting, never seemed to have the fire in the belly)
16) Antonin Scalia 5 (Best mind on the the Supreme Court)
16) Glenn Reynolds 5 (Tongue in cheek conservative blogger)
16) Bobby Jindal 5 * (Brilliant, hope for the future)
16) George W. Bush 5 (Man of courage and conviction, spent too much)
16) Sean Hannity 5 (Consistently right, pleasantly verbal)
16) Tom Coburn 5 * (Oklahoma should be proud of this physician senator.)
14) Victor Davis Hanson 6 (can be seen at National Review Online)
14) Dick Cheney 6 (Solid knowledge)
12) Ed Morrissey 7 (Straight talk)
12) Ann Coulter 7 (Provocative (in her writing), has the best stinger writing today.)
10) Jonah Goldberg 8 (can be seen at National Review Online)
10) Newt Gingrich 8 (An endless source on interesting ideas.)
9) Jim DeMint 9 * (Premier conservative senator with Tom Coburn)
7) Mark Levin 10 (Good book, no local outlet)
7) Glenn Beck 10 (Kind of passionate, but intelligent, does more digging into issues than most anyone.)
6) Charles Krauthammer 11 (Mostly always right.)
5) Mark Steyn 14 (can be seen at National Review Online)
4) Michelle Malkin 15 (Brilliant, fearless)
3) Thomas Sowell 17 (can be seen at National Review Online. Oh, if only he were President.)
2) Sarah Palin 20 (With "death panels" she identied those who care nothing for life at the beginning and the end.)
1) Rush Limbaugh 24 (Who else?)

• In office

No Bill O'Reilly, no surprise. No Laura Ingraham, a surprise.

Why not add your comments on your top five?