Right Wing News emailed more than a 170 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of who they considered to be their "Favorite Contemporary Dinner Guests". Representatives from the following 46 blogs responded...

Abode Of Amritas, Absinthe & Cookies, Betsy's Page, Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love, Bit's Blog, Joshua Clayborn, The Conspiracy To Keep You Poor & Stupid, Croooow Blog, Curmudgeonly & Skeptical, Democrats Give Conservatives Indigestion, D-42, dcthornton.blog, Dissecting Leftism, Dodgeblogium, Ed Driscoll, Drumwaster's Rants, Fraters Libertas, Gocinatlanta, Insults Unpunished, Jessica's Well, Jihad Watch, Joyful Christian, Lead And Gold, Lex Libertas , Lexxiblog: Snippets From My Day, The Mudville Gazette, North Georgia Dogma, The Pink Flamingo Bar & Grill, The Politburo Diktat, Porphyrogenitus, QandO, Right Wing News, Serenity's Journal, Sine Qua Non , Stark Truth, The Steel Cage, The Southern California Law Blog, The Ville

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-20 selections. Rank was determined simply by the number of votes received.

The bloggers were also told that their selections had to be currently living people from anywhere in the world that they'd really enjoy sitting down with for a long 1 on 1 conversation over dinner.

Here are the selections that were made with the number of votes received following each choice in parentheses (Choices were awarded a 1/2 vote if they were selected as part of a couple)...

Honorable Mentions: Clarence Thomas (4), Arnold Schwarzenegger (4), Colin Powell (4), PJ O'Rourke (4), James Lileks (4), Charles Krauthammer (4), Sean Hannity (4), Rudolph Giuliani (4), Larry Elder (4), Steven Den Beste (4), George Bush Sr. (4), Neal Boortz (4)

18) Karl Rove (5)
18) Glenn Reynolds (5)
18) David Horowitz (5)
18) Christopher Hitchens (5)
18) Newt Gingrich (5)
18) Dick Cheney (5)
16) Walter Williams (6)
16) William Buckley (6)
12) Margaret Thatcher (7)
12) Dennis Miller (7)
12) Laura Ingraham (7)
12) Milton Friedman (7)
10) Victor Davis Hanson (8)
10) Mel Gibson (8)
8) Jonah Goldberg (10)
8) Ann Coulter (10)
7) Mark Steyn (11)
5) Rush Limbaugh (12)
5) Tony Blair (12)
4) Thomas Sowell (13)
3) Donald Rumsfeld (18.5)
2) George W. Bush (21.5)
1) Condi Rice (25)