Who should rule the world

Right Wing News blogged The BBC polled more than 15,000 people worldwide on whom they would want to lead a fantasy world government. The results were, particularly for conservatives, quite disturbing with people like Bill Clinton, Noam Chomsky, Kofi Annan, and George Soros making it into the top 11.

Their list was: 1-Nelson Mandela   2-Bill Clinton   3-Dalai Lama   4-Noam Chomsky (pictured)   5-Alan Greenspan   6-Bill Gates   7-Steve Jobs   8-Archbishop Desmond Tutu   9-Richard Branson   10-George Soros   11-Kofi Annan   12-Tony Blair. Hillary Clinton was 16th, behing Michael Moore at 15th. US President George W Bush was placed 43, ranking below two of his fiercest adversaries on the world stage, Fidel Castro - 36th - and Hugo Chavez, 33rd. Users were required to pick at least one each from a select list of leaders, thinkers and economists, and had a free choice of any other eight, including the option of selecting "wild cards" from areas such as sport, politics, arts and design.

So, in order to get a different perspective, Right Wing News decided to poll more than 200 right-of-center bloggers on whom they'd want to be part of a team to "Rule The World."

There was one caveat however. Since many conservative bloggers, myself included, vehemently object to the idea of one world government, all bloggers were told they were choosing a team to run every country in the world except their own home country. Representatives from the following 38 blogs responded... All bloggers could make anywhere from 1-15 unranked selections and were allowed to select any living person, from anywhere in the world, for their lists. Without further ado, here are the people right-of-center bloggers would choose to rule the world:

15) Paul Wolfowitz: Former US Deputy Secretary of Defense. World Bank President (4)
15) Arnold Schwarzenegger: Governor of California (4)
15) Rush Limbaugh: Talk radio host (4)
15) Junichiro Koizumi: Prime Minister of Japan (4)
15) Christopher Hitchens: Pundit (4)
15) Bill Gates: Founder of Microsoft (4)
15) Tommy Franks: Former US General (4)
15) Dick Cheney: US Vice President (4)
15) George W. Bush: US President (4)
15) Tony Blair: British Prime Minister (4)
12) Donald Rumsfeld: US Secretary of Defense (5)
12) Václav Havel: Former President of Czechoslovakia (5)
12) Pope Benedict XVI: Pope (5)
10) Mark Steyn: Pundit (6)
10) Victor Davis Hanson: Pundit (6)
7) Thomas Sowell: Pundit (7)
7) Antonin Scalia: US Supreme Court Justice (7)
7) Ann Coulter: Pundit (7)
4) Natan Sharansky: Soviet dissident, former Israeli cabinet member (8)
4) Rudy Giuliani: Former Mayor of New York City (8)
4) Milton Friedman: Economist (8)
2) Margaret Thatcher: Former British Prime Minister (10)
2) John Howard: Australian Prime Minister (10)
1) Condoleeza Rice: US Secretary of State (14)

I suspect Bush would have scored much higher had the poll been done before the Miers nomination, since a lot of the Right side of the Blogosphere has turned against him, I think unfairly, and definitely to their detriment. It can only help the left for the right to be divided. Also the instruction to "choose a team to run every country in the world except their own home country" was somewhat confusing, since maybe some wanted him to stay in charge of the US.